A primer of college football.

Description:

Instruction from the football coach at Harvard 1894-1907 in an era when the coach could not call the plays. He played at Amherst College as an undergraduate 'roving center', elected captain, and at Harvard as a law student, elected captain. Named in Caspar Whitney's "All-America " teams in 1892 and 1893. Lewis later contributed a chapter on defense in Spalding's *How to Play Football*. Harvard alum Teddy Roosevelt admired his leadership and appointed the civil rights minded lawyer as an assistqnt US attorney for Boston.

subjects: African-American,  Football,  black history,  college football history

Places: Amherst College,  Harvard College

Times: Ivy League football 1888 - 1896,  early college football,  turn of the 20th Century football