"Walter Camp for More Open Football"
Newspaper article
By: The New York Times
Date: December 19, 1909
Source: "Walter Camp for More Open Football." The New York Times, December 19, 1909, S7.
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Introduction
Known as the father of American football, Walter Camp (1859–1925) was not only instrumental in significantly changing the game in the late nineteenth century, but had an additional impact in 1905 as a part of the rule-making meeting of the newly formed Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS), which would...
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