App Description

Football: The Gridiron Game dives into the early years of football, America’s most popular sport.

The App includes 80+ primary source historical artifacts about gridiron football from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Readers will find the Official National Collegiate Football Guide, several editions of Spalding’s How to Play Football, and many more hidden treasures. The App explores the great pioneers of football who paved the way, shaped and molded the game into its modern form and how the complicated rules, plays and formations developed.

App Features:

• High Resolution Images: View books, images and documents in high resolution. You can easily zoom in to see the smallest details. You may even see library marks within the books, just as you would if you held the book in real life.

• Offline Bookshelf: Download the books for easy reading, anytime.

All artifacts within this app are available only in English.

iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • October 22, 2012 Initial release