Football & how to play it, etc

BY GIANTS OF THE GAME.
Eleven Great 1ayers and
their Methods,,
Each of Them Tells
His Own Story,
'REFACE.
In issaing this book, we do so confident that it will reldeive 6
warm welcome from all who take an interest in the great winter pas-
tinio. In its production, we have been fortunate in, securing the co-
operation of eleven footballers whose names are known throughout
the athletic world, and in " Football Described " the player who plays
the game and the spectator who looks on will learn how it should be
played from the pens of such giants of the dribbling code as Harry
Rennie, Falter Arnott, Dan Doyle, R. H. Boyle, James Kelly,
J. T.
Robertson, W. Meredith
;
J. Campbell, R. C. Hamilton', A. M`Ma.hon, and
J. Bell. Thus from goal to centre-forward, each of the eleven positions
on the football field is dealt with by one of its foremost exponents.
Rennie is admittedly one of the finest goalkeepers of the present
day; Arnott's fame as a full back will last as long as the game itself;
while Dan Doyle is considered the greatest left back that ever repre-
sented Scotland. Boyle, of Evertan and Dundee fame, a star artiste all
his days, tells how to play right hal f-back ; James Kelly's great work
for Renton, Celtic, and Scotland invests his advice with undoubted
authority; and of John T. Robertson, who deals with the left half-back
position, nothing more need be said than that he has taken the field for
Scotland against England every year since 1898. W. Meredith, the
Welsh Internationalist, helped Manchester City to win the English Cup
last April; Campbell, who used to be at home anywhere in the forward
line, and AI`Mahon
)
when forming the Celtic left wing in the early
nineties, showed Scotland to what perfection combined play could be
brought; R. C. Hamilton is Scotland's best centre-forward at the
present moment; and Jack Bell, who describes the duties of an out-
side left, had no equal in that position in his Everton days. It will
thus be seen that they are admirably qualified for the task we imposed
upon them, and with this brief introductirn our eleven players may be
left to speak for themselves.
August 1904.