Historical Dictionary of Football

The Historical Dictionary of Football covers the history of American football through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on both amateur (collegiate) and professional players, coaches, teams and executives from all eras. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of football.

John Grasso is an Olympic historian, he has been Treasurer of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) since 2004, and is a member of the Association for Professional Basketball Research (APBR), the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH), the Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA) and was the founder of the International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO) in 1982. He is the author of Historical Dictionary of Basketball (Scarecrow, 2010), and Historical Dictionary of Tennis (Scarecrow, 2011).