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• Il giuoco del calcio. (R. Bemporad & figlio, 1898), by Pietro Gori (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorie del calcio fiorentino : tratte da diverse scritture e dedicate all' Altezze Serenissime di Ferdinando principe di Toscana e Violante Beatrice di Baviera. (Nella Stamperia di S.A.S. alla Condotta, 1688), by Piero Matini, Alessandro Cecchini, Francesco Nacci, Pietro di Lorenzo Bini, and Stamperia di S.A.S. alla Condotta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorso sopra il giuoco del calcio fiorentino (Nella stamperia de'Giunti, 1580), by Giovanni de' Bardi (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Football: Secrets of the "Split T" Formation (firth printing; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1956), by Don Faurot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Foot-Ball for Players and Coaches (second edition, c1919), by Mark Beal Banks
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• Primer of College Football (New York: Harper and Bros., 1896), by William H. Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A scientific and practical treatise on American football for schools and colleges (D. Appleton, 1894), by Amos Alonzo Stagg and Henry Llewellyn Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spalding's how to play foot ball; a primer on the modern college game, with tactics brought down to date (American sports publicshing company, 1902), by Walter Camp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Touchdown! (Longmans, Green and co., 1927), by Amos Alonzo Stagg and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to play rugby football (C. Scribner's sons, 1934), by W.J. A. Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rugby football up to date (Hodder and Stoughton, limited, 1921), by E. H. D. Sewell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Limited material? Unlimited results: Football for young coaches. ([Inter-collegiate Press], 1963), by John M. Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football fundamentals : basic strategy and teaching methods (McGraw-Hill, 1957), by John F. Bateman and Paul Vincent Governali (page images at HathiTrust)
• Building a championship football team. (Prentice-Hall, 1960), by Paul W. Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• American football. (Harper & brothers, 1891), by Walter Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football for the spectator. (R. G. Badger, 1911), by Walter Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical football: a manual for coaches, players and students of the game. (Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1934), by Herbert Orin Crisler and Elton Ewart Wieman (page images at HathiTrust)
• American football (New York and London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1921], 1921), by Charles Dudley Daly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football days; memories of the game and the men behind the ball (Moffat, Yard and company, 1916), by William H. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football and how to watch it (Little, Brown, and company, 1924), by Percy Duncan Haughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football : principles and play. (Ronald Press, 1962), by David M. Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football for public and player (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1913), by Herbert M. Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football offense. (Flint-Douglas printing co., 1924), by Andrew L. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football for coaches and players (G. S. Warner, 1927), by Glenn Scobey Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• American football, its history and development (D. Appleton and company, 1926), by Alexander M. Weyand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football officiating and interpretation of the rules (R. G. Adams & co., 1926), by Fonsa Allen Lambert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Football at Ohio State. ([Columbus?], 1957), by Woody Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The forward pass in football. (A. S. Barnes and company, 1921), by Elmer Berry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six-man football, the streamlined game; principles of six-man football for players, coaches and spectators. (Harper, 1938), by Stephen Edward Epler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern football, fundamentals and strategy. (Whittlesey House, 1949), by Herbert Orin Crisler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football for player and spectator (University publishing company, 1905), by Fielding Harris Yost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scottish football reminiscences and sketches (J. Menzies & co.,[etc.];, 1890), by David Drummond Bone (page images at HathiTrust)
• American football (Harper & brothers, 1893), by Walter Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1896), by Walter Camp and Lorin Fuller Deland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football, today and tomorrow (Duffield and company, 1927), by William Winston Roper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winning football (Dodd, Mead and company, 1921), by William Winston Roper (page images at HathiTrust)
• A course in football for players and coaches (Carlisle, Penn., 1912), by Glenn S. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football, how to play it and how to understand it (C. Scribner's sons, 1923), by John Woodworth Wilce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six-man football ([Edwards bros., inc.], 1944), by J. D. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• The official football guide. (NCAA Publishing Service., in the 1880s), by National Collegiate Athletic Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• What price football, : a player's defense of the game, (Houghton Mifflin, 1932), by W. Barry Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenir - Ironwood-Bessemer scoreless football game. October 8, 1922. ([Place of publication not identified], 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A digest of the proceedings of the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, 1895-1920. (The Conference, 1920), by Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Pamphlets in philology and the humanities. Vol. 19]. (s.n., 1890), by G. Stanley Hall, H.S. Jennings, E. W. Scripture, Lane Cooper, Ewald A. Boucke, Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan, Henry A. Sanders, George Ellsworth Dawson, Clarence Linton Meader, George Hempl, Walter Bagehot, Chauncey Wetmore Wells, Otto Eduard Lessing, Roger Wells, Claud Howard, Orestes Pearle Rhyne, C. M. Woodward, James Geddes, Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Merle Harrold Thorpe, Carl Schurz, Fred Newton Scott, Edward Cary, J. H. De Forest, S. Millett Thompson, National Education Association of the United States. Department of Superintendence, University of Michigan, Societas Rugbiana Colloquii Latini Graecique, University of Illinois. College of Engineering, and University of Michigan. Dept. of English (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football technique and tactics (Bailey and Himes, 1924), by Robert Carl Zuppke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football and how to watch it (Marshall Jones, 1922), by Percy Duncan Haughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winning football (Dodd, Mead, 1920), by William Winston Roper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football : the American intercollegiate game (Scribner's, 1911), by Parke H. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Athletics and football (Longmans, Green, 1887), by Montague Shearman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Survivals of folk football (Great Britain) (Published by the Editor of "School hygiene and physical education", 1928), by Frank N. Punchard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Football: the Rugby union game (Cassell and Co., ltd., 1925), by Francis Marshall and Leonard R. Tosswill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Coaching football (Bailey & Himes, 1930), by Robert C. Zuppke and Milton Martin Frithiof Olander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football conditioning; an illustrated hand book for coaches, students and players (A. S. Barnes and company, 1926), by Holger Christian Langmack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Football kicking techniques (McGraw-Hill, 1950), by Kenneth E. Strong and Emil E. Brodbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamentals of the "T" formation (W.C. Brown, 1956), by Jim Bonder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football officiating. (Lawhead Press, 1946), by Earl C. Krieger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Spalding's official "soccer" football guide... (American Sports Publishing Co., 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• American football (Harper, 1921), by Charles Dudley Daly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rugby football. (Allen, 1922), by D. R. Gent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A scientific and practical treatise on American football for schools and colleges (Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1893), by Amos Alonzo Stagg and Henry Llewellyn Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Athletics and football (Longmans, Green, 1889), by Montague Shearman, Richard Everhard Webster Alverstone, Walter Rye, and Richard Everard Webster Alverstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handy football library. (Blue Ribbon Books, 1949), by Louis R. Oshins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of a football season (J.B. Lippincott company, 1907), by George Haydock Brooke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of foot-ball (The Century Co., 1910), by Walter Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete association footballer (Methuen & Co., ltd., 1912), by Betram Saxellye Evers and Cyril Edward Hughes Davies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Official souvenir, score card, and revised rules to date: Yale-Princeton annual foot ball game. Manhattan field ... December 1st, 1894 ... (Gibson, 1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football facts and figures. A symposium of expert opinions on the game's place in American athletics. (Harper & brothers, 1894), by Walter Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• American football (Harper & Brothers, 1894), by Walter Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poe's foot-ball : how to play the most popular amateur game ; containing the latest American Inter-collegiate Association and Rugby rules. (Street & Smith, 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Minnesota football (s.n.], 1928), by University of Minnesota. General Alumni Association and Martin Newell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The following are the general rules for football, at Uppingham School, October, 1871. (Hawthorn, 1871), by Uppingham School (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of football (Sports publishing bureau, 1922), by John W. Heisman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Winning football (Dodd, Mead and company, 1921), by William Winston Roper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California football history (Press of the Berkeley gazette, 1924), by Brick Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
• American football. (Harper & brothers, 1896), by Walter Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• American football. (Harper & brothers, 1894), by Walter Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• American football. (Harper & brothers, 1896), by Walter Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of rules of the game of foot-ball (Peck & Snyder, 1871), by Charles W Alcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1896), by Walter Camp and Lorin F. Deland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football and how to watch it (Marshall Jones Co., 1922), by Percy Duncan Haughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football without a coach (D. Appleton and Company, 1920), by Walter Camp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters from Brother Bill, 'varsity sub, to Tad, captain of the Beechville high school eleven (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1915), by Walter Kellogg Towers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A scientific and practical treatise on American football : for schools and colleges (D. Appleton & Co., 1894), by Amos Alonzo Stagg and Henry Llewellyn Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simple explanations of the great game of football, with diagrams for spectators. (Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard company, 1893), by A Stagg and Henry Llewellyn Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to play "soccer" (American sports publishing co., 1900), by J. A. McWeeney, John Cameron, A. McCombie, Alfred Common, Jack Kirwan, Walter Bull, James Ashcroft, J. T. Robertson, and Stephen Bloomer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ortonville High School Football Team (Big Stone County Historical Society Museum, 228 NW 2nd Street, Ortonville, Minnesota 56278, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Football Team (Big Stone County Historical Society, 985 U.S. Highway 12, Ortonville, Minnesota 56278, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coaching. (AMS Press, 1970), by Knute Rockne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Principles of foot ball (Sports, 1921), by John W. Heisman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inside dope on football coaching (Compliments of T. E. Wilson & co., 1917), by John R. Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty winning plays in football ([s.n.], 1922), by Ernest Graves and John J. McEwan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zuppke of Illinois (A. L. Glaser, inc., 1937), by Harold Edward Grange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Football : today and tomorrow (Duffield, 1928), by William W. Roper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il giuoco del calcio e le signorie festeggianti. (F. Lumachi, 1902), by Pietro Gori (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A scientific and practical treatise on American football for schools and colleges (D. Appleton, 1991), by Amos Alonzo Stagg and Henry Llewellyn Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American football. With thirty-one portraits. (Harper & Brothers, 1892), by Walter Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• A digest of the foot ball rules for 1910. (American sports publishing company, 1910), by C. W. Short (page images at HathiTrust)
• The official six-man football, guide and rulebook; a handbook for players, coaches, and schoolmen. (The University publishing company., 1939), by Stephen Edward Epler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mechanics of officiating : the American Football League (The League, 1960), by American Football League, Bob Austin, and Joe Foss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Football. History (Longmans, Green and co., 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
• "The boys with the educated feet"; association (soccer) football (Burgess publishing company, 1951), by William Jeffrey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dr. Henry L. Williams ; a football biography. (S. W. Carlson, 1938), by Stanley Waldo Carlson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manual del footballista paraguayo, moralidad e higiene del jugador. ([Imprenta nacional], 1921), by Gaston Thibaut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Luckman at quarterback ; football as a sport and a career. (Ziff-Davis Pub. Co., 1949), by Sid Luckman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Foot ball officiating. (The Lawhead press, 1935), by Earl C. Krieger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Football officiating. (Lawhead Press, 1958), by Earl C. Krieger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to watch a football game. (Leisure league of America, 1937), by Mal Stevens and Harry Shorten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Football (A. S. Barnes, 1939), by William Glenn Killinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• This game of football. (McGraw-Hill, 1952), by Lynn Osbert Waldorf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The golden gophers, a record of the achievements of the undefeated football teams of 1933, 1934 and 1935 of the University of Minnesota : also contains records of all Minnesota football teams from the beginning of football on the campus through the 1935 season (General alumni association of the University of Minnesota, 1935), by University of Minnesota. General Alumni Association and William S. Gibson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The split-line T offense. (Prentice-Hall, 1963), by Alonzo S Gaither (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Confessions of a gypsy quarterback; inside the wacky world of pro football (Coward-McCann, 1962), by George Ratterman and Robert G. Deindorfer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Football line play for players and coaches. (A. S. Barnes, 1948), by Bernard Francis Oakes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The winning team of Centre College (s.n., 1923), by Richmond Ames Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Welfare, recreation, and morale : Combat football. (U.S. Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Army, 1976), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coaching (The Devin-Adair company, 1925), by Knute Rockne (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to coach and play football (The Clio press, 1923), by Howard Harding Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Do you know your football? (A. S. Barnes & company, 1946), by Louis Henry Baker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rockne's football problems ([Menomonie, Wis.], 1927), by Knute Rockne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pro football, its "ups" and "downs"; a light-hearted history of the post graduate game (Printed by J.B. Lyon Company, 1934), by Harry Addison March (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Football offense in revolution; the bifocal attack. (Pageant Press, 1960), by Calvin A. Walden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The modern "T" formation with man-in-motion (C. Shaughnessy, R. Jones and G. Halas, 1946), by Clark Daniel Shaughnessy, George Stanley Halas, and Ralph Robert Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pigskin tactics (School-Aid Co., 1953), by Vince Di Francesca and Harold C. Ave (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Offensive football : (the "Belly series") (Ronald Press Co., 1958), by Jordan Olivar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Knute Rockne, football wizard of Notre Dame. (J. P. Kenedy, 1960), by Arthur Daley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Umbrella defenses (W. C. Brown Co., 1956), by Jack C. Mitchell and Bernard A. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Six-man football manual. (Sykeston, N.D., 1939), by Alfred William Larson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Coaching, the way of the winner. (Devin-Adair, 1928), by Knute Rockne (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to play soccer (American Sports Publishing Co., 1934), by Douglas Stewart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Successful multiple offense in high school football (Prentice-Hall, 1957), by Robert E. Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The explosive short T. (Prentice-Hall, 1963), by Homer Rice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forty two years on the tiger gridiron; a history of football at the Louisiana state university, 1893-1935 (O. Claitor, 1936), by Herbert Warren Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fifty years of Colgate football, 1890-1940 (Colgate Athletic Council, 1940), by Ellery C. Huntington and John W. Peddie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California football history, by Brick Morse . . . (The Gillick press, 1937), by Clinton Ralza Morse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California football history (Gillick Press, 1937), by Brick Morse and Gillick Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to watch & understand football (Marshall Jones company, 1922), by Percy Duncan Haughton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Football; the Rugby union game (Paris & Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited, 1895), by Francis Marshall and A. G. Guillemard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shrove Tuesday football (Harvard University Press, 1931), by Francis Peabody Magoun (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Revised foot-ball rules. (McIntosh publishing company, 1895), by Burr William McIntosh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inside football (Small, Maynard, 1919), by Frank W. Cavanaugh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Slot T football. (Prentice-Hall, 1961), by Max R. Spilsbury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rugby : reminiscences and opinions (Pilot Press, 1929), by Rowe Harding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manual for functional football (American football institute, 1935), by John Da Grosa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• All-time history of the Battling Buckeyes, the story of Ohio State University football from 1890-1952 (Columbus, Ohio : Thomson Pub. Co., [1952?], 1952), by Tom Thomson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indiana foot-ball, college, athletic club and high school. (Carlon & Hollenbeck, printers, 1896), by Andrew J. Stott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rockne (Chicago : Reilly and Lee Co., 1931., 1931), by Warren Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Book of football. (Doubleday, 1963), by Allie Sherman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bulldogs on Sunday. (P.F.R.A., in the 20th century), by Professional Football Researchers Association (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foot-ball : its history for five centuries, by Montague Shearman and James Edmund Vincent (Gutenberg ebook)
• Building a championship football team, by Paul W. Bryant, contrib. by Lloyd Jefferson Gregory (Gutenberg ebook)
• American Football, by Walter Camp (Gutenberg ebook)
• The forward pass in football, by Elmer Berry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches, by David Drummond Bone (Gutenberg ebook)
• Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball, by William H. Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)

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