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