Daughters of the Lost Century is an action-packed pictorial anthology of women’s sports featuring more than 100 rare articles and 1,000 lively illustrations originally published between 1849 and 1909, an overlooked era of American sports history. 
 This fascinating compilation from “The Lost Century of Sports Collection” provides valuable insight about the origins and development of women’s sports during the Victorian era and the social ramifications of the athletic New Woman as reported by the media at the time. The subject is enlivened by the vibrant energy of the women athletes in the illustrations, the sheer vastness of the collection, and the surprising variety of sports engaged in during an epoch better known for hoop skirts than for shooting hoops. 
 Such overwhelming evidence of robust athleticism shatters our modern genteel stereotype of women of the 19th century. Primary sources include Harper’s Weekly, Leslie’s Weekly, Cosmopolitan, Outing, Munsey’s Magazine, Woman’s Physical Development, The Illustrated London News, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The San Francisco Call, and dozens of other periodicals. Many of the articles were written by women. 
 This entertaining and educational volume of historical treasures is a must for every library, an essential resource for women’s studies, and an ideal gift book for athletes, students, and art lovers. These contemporary published accounts reveal a passion for play and a desire for physical fitness common to women of today. 
 The brief initial bloom of women’s sports at the end of the 19th century, and the “unladylike” competitive zeal of the athletes as reported in sensationalized press accounts, prompted a social backlash that led to restricting female participation in sports for generations, until the passage of Title IX in 1972. 
 A common thread in many articles from the earliest fitness magazines is the role of diet, exercise and sports in relation to physical beauty and the concept of femininity, a twining still evident in today’s most popular women’s fitness publications. 
 The volume includes significant sections on the first flourishing of women’s college basketball, the barnstorming baseball bloomer girls, the bicycle revolution, physical training, swimming, gymnastics, and two foundational books: Catharine Beecher’s 1856 classic “Calisthenic Exercises, for Schools, Families, and Health Establishments,” and Lucille Hill’s groundbreaking 1903 work, “Athletics and Out-door Sports for Women.” 
 Among the many sports covered in this volume are bowling, volleyball, softball, track &amp; field, ice skating, roller skating, skiing, ice hockey, football, fencing, archery, billiards, rowing, golf, tennis, dancing, and equestrian sports. This volume reveals and preserves the proud forgotten heritage of American women’s sports.

Daughters of the Lost Century: The Playful Pioneers of American Women's Sports & Fitness - A Collection of Rare Articles and Illustrations Originally Published Over 100 Years Ago

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The First Crusade Against Football is a fully-indexed 600-page time capsule of articles and images from 1827 to 1898 during the first major crisis in American football based on its dangers and brutality. Football has been a violent and sometimes brutal sport since it began in the 19th century. As the game grew and expanded across the country, more and more young men were injured, crippled, and killed. In response to the public outcry against the sport and college authorities who sought to ban it, the founders of football sought to defend and reform the sport. Today football is again under attack due to a string of serious injuries and damaging medical reports. Headlines decry a drop in football ratings while predicting the possible demise of the sport. But none of this is new. This authoritative look at football in the 1800s shows the controversy over injuries was roaring even back in the 19th century when players had little if any protective equipment. Modern day rules designed for safety had yet to be created. The sport was for the toughest of young men who had grown up breaking horses and sleeping in uninsulated attics. But the crush of serious injuries, accidental death, concerned citizen groups, and critical newspaper reports resulted in the much safer modern game we have today. The First Crusade Against Football serves as a road map for parents, coaches, and football personnel who are struggling to address current injury concerns. The 600-page book features 210 articles, 85 illustrations, and 25 historic photographs. It details many examples of the concussion problem in the 1800s and how the game adapted to become safer, and then grew to become the central sport in America. The massive Index contains over 750 entries including breakdowns by injury type (bruise, concussion, cripple, disable, dislocate, fracture, sprain) and body part (ankle, arm, brain, collarbone, ear, elbow, eye, face, head, jaw, knee, leg, ligament, limb, mouth, neck, nose, rib, shoulder, skull, spine, tendon, tooth). An example from the book is the following excerpt from an 1892 article written by Walter Camp about a head injury during a game in 1884: At a point in the play of the first half, Terry in some way received a severe blow on the head, but such was the force of the bringing up he had enjoyed that he scrambled back into his place after giving up the ball to the centre rush, and only those perfectly familiar with his usual method of play would have noticed, or did notice anything peculiar about his movements. He managed to get through the half, and at intermission a hasty consultation was held in the dressing room by the captain and coaches. Terry was kept away from the rest of the players, for he was manifestly “out of his head.” Richards said that during the latter part of the half Terry couldn’t get his signals, but that being told what each was when it was given he seemed to carry out the play all right from sheer force of habit. Here was a dilemma indeed. No other half-back was available, and Richards, as well as others, believed that Terry, even in his condition, would mechanically carry out his plays if some one kept telling him when and what his signal was. Finally it was decided to start in with him on the second half and chance it. He not only played, but played well, desperately well at times, although he actually knew nothing of his actions, and was placed in a physician’s care immediately after the game. It was some 12 hours before he recovered ordinary power of thought, and then he knew nothing whatever of the game or its results after he was hurt. Up to that point he could tell the progress of the game accurately—beyond that his mind was a blank until the following morning. I have heard of one or two similar instances, but this is the only one that has chanced to come under my own observation.

The First Crusade Against Football: Injuries, Brutality and Death in American Football from Bloody Monday to the Flying Wedge : Media Reports from 1827 to 1898

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Americas

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You've never seen football like this before! The largest collection of 19th century football art ever published -- Hundreds of illustrations. This visual time capsule reveals how football began and evolved, and how most Americans were introduced to the game before the advent of action photography. Illustrators include Frederic Remington, Charles Dana Gibson, A.B. Frost, Edward Penfield, I.R. Wiles, W.T. Smedley, Charles J. Taylor, and many other talented artists. Without these works of art, we would have no visual record of the early American game. The 8.5 x 11 inch art book includes a chronological Table of Contents and a full Index with dozens of source publications. The images were scanned from original sources and restored by The Lost Century of Sports Collection. Other football books in The Lost Century of Sports Collection include The Lost Century of American Football, The American Football Trilogy, The First Decade of College Football, Football Linemen, and Walter Camp in Print.

Classic Football Art: Originally Published in 19th Century Newspapers: Hundreds of Illustrations from the Dawn of the Great American Game (The Lost Century of Sports Collection)

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History & Criticism

From 1884 to 1894, between the ages of 25 and 35, Walter Camp established his reputation as "the father of American football." He was the first coach, a tireless promoter of the sport, the most prominent member of the rules committee, and a prolific writer. The 36 articles and 1 book in this volume were read by aspiring football players nationwide. They used Camp's information and advice as an instruction manual for the game they were just starting to learn. His works form the most influential body of work in football history. The source material was scanned directly from the original publications and restored by The Lost Century of Sports Collection. Other football books in The Lost Century of Sports Collection include The Lost Century of American Football, The American Football Trilogy, The First Decade of College Football, Football Linemen, and Classic Football Art.

Walter Camp in Print: A Portfolio of Rare Articles by the First Football Coach & Father of the American Game (The Lost Century of Sports Collection)

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Football (American)

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