Historical Dictionary of Football

The latest in the Historical Dictionaries of Sports series from Scarecrow Press, John Grasso has authored a compact, yet fairly comprehensive dictionary of the history of American football at the college and professional levels. At the professional level, Grasso includes both American football and its slightly different counterpart north of the border, football as played in Canada.

It is typically necessary to clarify the difference between American football and what the rest of the world calls football, or soccer as it is known in the USA. The history of the game as identified in this volumes covers <200 years as...