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The roots of American Football derive
from rugby and soccer...the first ' football games ' seem to have begun
at Princeton by students who called it ' ballown '. Over at Harvard,
the freshman and sophomore classes competed in a
football-type game, played on the first Monday of each school year;
this event came to be known as ‘Bloody Monday’ because of the roughness
of the game. Soon after the end of the American Civil War, around
1865, colleges began organizing football games. In 1867, Princeton led
the way in establishing some rudimentary rules of
the game. Also in that year, the football itself was patented for the
very first time.
Emmitt Smith Joe Greene Johnny Unitas Marcus Allen
Emmitt Smith Joe Greene Johnny Unitas Marcus Allen
Walter Camp was the general athletic
director and head advisory football coach at Yale
University from 1888-1914, and chairman of the Yale football committee
from 1888-1912. Camp played football at Yale and helped evolve the
rules of the game away from Rugby and Soccer rules into the rules of
American Football as we know them today. Walter Camp edited every
American Football rulebook until his death in 1925.
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