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History Of Football

By lambrchr001

  • Walter Camp

    Walter Camp
    http://waltercamp.org/index.php/info/In 1876 a guy by the name of Walter Camp created the game of Football, Walter is known as father of American Football. Walter is credited with deciding that 11 players would make a team. Walter used the outline from the sport Rugby to constitute American Football.

  • Universities form their own college football teams

    Universities form their own college football teams
    In 1880-1890 colleges around the nation began to build and make their own football teams. Rutger vs Princeton is considered to be the first intercollegeiate "Football" game.

  • First known professional Football player

    First known professional Football player
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13989501William "Pudge" Heffelfinger was know as the first professional football player. Heffelfinger played at Yale University in 1889, 1890 and 1891. He was the first player to be paid to play the game. They offered him $500 hundred dollars.

  • First professional football game

    First professional football game
    http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/History-of-American-Football-2On September 3,1895 the first professional game of football was played, in Latrobe, Pennslyvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette athletic club.

  • First fully professional Football team

    First fully professional Football team
    http://xtimeline.com/timeline/history-of-American-Football-2The Latrobe YMCA became the first fully professional football team beacause the team payed all of its players for the whole season.

  • 19 deaths due to football in one year (legal foward pass)

    19 deaths due to football in one year (legal foward pass)
    http://xtimeline.com/timeline/history-of-American-Football-2On this date president Theodore Roosevele threaten to shut the game down if drastic changes were not made. The high numbers of injuries and deaths were outrageous. This also led to a change in the rules of the game, the legal forward pass was introduced to the game of footbal.

  • NCAA!

    NCAA!
    http://xtimeline.com/timeline/history-of-American-Football-262 teams met up in newyork to discuss how to make the game safer and in result the intercollegiate league became know as the NCAA