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Walter Camp

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Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". [1]

83 relations: All-America, Alma mater, American football, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Caspar Whitney, Center (gridiron football), Chicago Maroons football, College football, College Football All-America Team, College Football Hall of Fame, College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Down (gridiron football), Early history of American football, Eugene V. Baker, Fielding H. Yost, Fullback (gridiron football), George Halas, Halfback (American football), Harper's Weekly, Harvard University, Harvard–Yale football rivalry, History of American football, Hopkins School, Intercollegiate Football Association, John Heisman, Line of scrimmage, Lineman (gridiron football), Linonian Society, List of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure, Los Angeles Times, Lulu Hunt Peters, Mansfield News Journal, McClure's, National Collegiate Athletic Association, New Britain, Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut, New York City, New York Journal-American, Offensive backfield, Phonograph record, Pop Warner, Quarterback, Radio, Rugby football, Safety (gridiron football score), Scroll and Key, Scrum (rugby), Skull and Bones, Snap (gridiron football), ..., Sports journalism, Stanford Cardinal football, Stanford University, Taylor Branch, The Boston Globe, Theodore Roosevelt, Typhoid fever, United States Armed Forces, United States Army, United States Navy, William Graham Sumner, Wilton S. Farnsworth, Yale Bulldogs football, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, 1876 Yale Bulldogs football team, 1882 Yale Bulldogs football team, 1888 college football season, 1888 Yale Bulldogs football team, 1889 college football season, 1889 Yale Bulldogs football team, 1890 college football season, 1890 Yale Bulldogs football team, 1891 college football season, 1891 Yale Bulldogs football team, 1892 college football season, 1892 Stanford football team, 1892 Yale Bulldogs football team, 1894 Chicago vs. Stanford football game, 1894 college football season, 1894 Stanford football team, 1895 college football season, 1895 Stanford football team. Expand index (33 more) »

All-America

An All-America team is a hypothetical American sports team composed of outstanding amateur players.

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Alma mater

Alma mater (Latin: "nourishing/kind", "mother"; pl.) is an allegorical Latin phrase for a university or college.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 – March 17, 1965) was an American athlete and college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football.

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Caspar Whitney

Caspar William Whitney (September 2, 1864 – January 18, 1929) was an American author, editor, explorer, outdoorsman and war correspondent.

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Center (gridiron football)

Center (C) is a position in American football and Canadian football (in the latter the position is spelled centre, following Commonwealth spelling conventions).

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Chicago Maroons football

The Chicago Maroons football represents the University of Chicago in college football.

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College football

College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities.

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College Football All-America Team

The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective positions.

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College Football Hall of Fame

The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football.

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College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS

A national championship in the highest level of college football in the United States, currently the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), is a designation awarded annually by various organizations to their selection of the best college football team.

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Delta Kappa Epsilon

Delta Kappa Epsilon (ΔΚΕ), commonly known as DKE or Deke, is one of the oldest North American fraternities, with 56 active chapters across America and Canada.

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Down (gridiron football)

A down is a period in which a play transpires in American and Canadian football.

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Early history of American football

The early history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.

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Eugene V. Baker

Eugene V. Baker was a pioneer college football player and coach for the Yale Bulldogs of Yale University.

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Fielding H. Yost

Fielding Harris Yost (April 30, 1871 – August 20, 1946) was an American football player, coach and college athletics administrator.

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Fullback (gridiron football)

A fullback (FB) is a position in the offensive backfield in American and Canadian football, and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback.

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George Halas

George Stanley Halas Sr. (February 2, 1895October 31, 1983), nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr.

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Halfback (American football)

A halfback (HB) is an offensive position in American football, whose duties involve lining up in the backfield and carrying the ball on most rushing plays, i.e. a running back.

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Harper's Weekly

Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Harvard–Yale football rivalry

The Harvard–Yale football rivalry is renewed annually with The Game, an American college football contest between the Harvard Crimson football team of Harvard University and the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University.

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History of American football

The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.

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Hopkins School

Hopkins School is a private, college-preparatory, coeducational, day school located in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Intercollegiate Football Association

The Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA), also known as the American Intercollegiate Football Association, was one of the earliest college football rules-making and scheduling organizations in existence; it was active from the 1873 to 1893 seasons.

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John Heisman

John William Heisman (October 23, 1869 – October 3, 1936) was a player and coach of American football, baseball, and basketball, as well as a sportswriter and actor.

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Line of scrimmage

In American and Canadian football, a line of scrimmage is an imaginary transverse line (across the width of the football field) beyond which a team cannot cross until the next play has begun.

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Lineman (gridiron football)

In gridiron football, a lineman is a player who specializes in play at the line of scrimmage.

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Linonian Society

Linonia is a literary and debating society founded in 1753 at Yale University.

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List of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure

This is a list of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure, meaning that an individual was a head coach at a college or university for a period, departed, and then returned to the same college or university in the same capacity.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lulu Hunt Peters

Lulu Hunt Peters (1873–1930) was an American doctor and author who wrote a featured newspaper column entitled Diet and Health, which she followed up with a best-selling book, Diet & Health: With Key to the Calories.

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Mansfield News Journal

The Mansfield News Journal is a daily newspaper based in Mansfield, Ohio, that serves Richland, Ashland and Crawford counties, as well as parts of Morrow, Knox and Huron counties in the north central part of the state.

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McClure's

McClure's or McClure's Magazine (1893–1929) was an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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New Britain, Connecticut

New Britain is a city in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Journal-American

The New York Journal-American was a daily newspaper published in New York City from 1937 to 1966.

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Offensive backfield

The offensive backfield is the area of an American football field behind the line of scrimmage.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pop Warner

Glenn Scobey Warner (April 5, 1871 – September 7, 1954), most commonly known as Pop Warner, was an American football coach at various institutions who is responsible for several key aspects of the modern game.

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Quarterback

A quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB") is a position in American and Canadian football.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.

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Rugby football

Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union.

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Safety (gridiron football score)

In gridiron football, the safety (American football) or safety touch (Canadian football) is a scoring play that results in two points (or, in rare cases, one point) being awarded to the scoring team.

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Scroll and Key

The Scroll and Key Society is a secret society, founded in 1842 at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Scrum (rugby)

A scrum (short for scrummage) is a method of restarting play in rugby that involves players packing closely together with their heads down and attempting to gain possession of the ball.

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Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Snap (gridiron football)

A snap (colloquially called a "hike", "snapback", or "pass from center") is the backwards passing of the ball in American and Canadian football at the start of play from scrimmage.

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Sports journalism

Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on sporting topics and competitions.

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Stanford Cardinal football

The Stanford Cardinal football program represents Stanford University in college football at the NCAA Division I FBS level and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference's North Division.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947) is an American author and historian best known for his trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and much of the history of the American Civil Rights Movement.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a bacterial infection due to ''Salmonella'' typhi that causes symptoms.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner (October 30, 1840 – April 12, 1910) was a classical liberal American social scientist.

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Wilton S. Farnsworth

Wilton Simpson "Bill" Farnsworth (June 7, 1885 – July 10, 1945) was an American sports writer, editor, and boxing promoter.

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Yale Bulldogs football

The Yale Bulldogs football program represents Yale University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA).

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Yale School of Medicine

The Yale School of Medicine is the graduate medical school at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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1876 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1876 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1876 college football season.

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1882 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1882 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1882 college football season.

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1888 college football season

The 1888 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as having been selected national champions.

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1888 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1888 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1888 college football season.

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1889 college football season

The 1889 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Princeton as having been selected national champions.

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1889 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1889 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1889 college football season.

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1890 college football season

The 1890 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard as having been selected national champions.

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1890 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1890 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1890 college football season.

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1891 college football season

The 1891 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as having been selected national champions.

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1891 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1891 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1891 college football season.

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1892 college football season

The 1892 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as having been selected national champions.

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1892 Stanford football team

The 1892 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1892 college football season and was coached by Walter Camp.

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1892 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1892 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1892 college football season.

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1894 Chicago vs. Stanford football game

The 1894 Chicago vs.

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1894 college football season

The 1894 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Penn, Princeton, and Yale as having been selected joint national champions.

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1894 Stanford football team

The 1894 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1894 college football season and was coached by Walter Camp, who had previously coached the team in 1892.

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1895 college football season

The 1895 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Penn and Yale as having been selected national champions.

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1895 Stanford football team

The 1895 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1895 college football season and was coached by Walter Camp in his second consecutive and third overall year with the team.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Camp

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