Origins of Football
Feb 23, 2016
Origins of Football
QOD 11/30/12
•Why is Football America’s game?
Football• Nov. 6, 1869
Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4 in the “first” football game. (Rugby style)
• 25 men on each side
• Columbia joined the game in 1870
Frontier Settlements: 1870-1890
Football=Territory
Ideas of Manifest Destiny
Walter Camp “Father of American Football”
• Played at Yale from 1876-1880 and coached them from 1888-1891 and then Stanford from 1892-1895 (81-5-3 record)
• Served on every rule committee in collegiate football from 1878-1925.
• Responsible for changing the game from a rugby (kicking game) to modern football.
Camp cont.• Contributed the
following rule changes: snap-back from center, safety, the system of downs, and the points system touchdowns vs. kicking , and the 7 man offensive line formation. = Modern Football!
Michigan Football• 1879 first season• 1887 taught Notre
Dame the game• “Hail to the
Victors” 1898 after last minute victory over the University of Chicago
• Champions of the West?
NCAA is Born• Football was a
bloody sport in its beginning and many people called for it to be outlawed.
• TR called together the major colleges to discuss the matter in 1905 out of this meeting the NCAA is born