American football was created by a man named Walter Camp at Yale University. It was first invented in 1892 when Camp had altered the rules of the sports rugby and soccer and had eventually led to the creation of American football. Camp is responsible for inventing the line of scrimmage, use of downs, point system, the number of players per side, the snap, the basic formations of offense and defense and the creation of the quarterback position. Camp also is credited with the long - term commercialization of the sport, having written hundreds of articles and books highlighting the sport becoming popular throughout America. Camp is also responsible for being the first to publish a book on football with pictures and illustrations as coaching ads.
From that point on, football would go on and evolve into NFL, In
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The teams competing against each other were the Saint Paul Ideals and the Rock Island Independents. The first head to head games occurred a week later as the Dayton Triangles beat the Colombus Panhandlers. As the APFA evolved and gained more attention the team owners decided to replace Jim Thorpe as president of the APFA with Joe Carr owner of the Columbus Panhandlers and rebrand the APFA into the National Football League in 1922. While the APFA was growing in popularity it wasn’t everywhere yet, because of this in 1960 Lamar Hunt and Bud Adams created the AFL (American Football League), the AFL was created by seven businessmen from cities, hungary to form a football league. The AFL had football teams from Boston, Houston, Denver, Dallas, Oakland and Los angeles. With both the APFA and the AFL having a football league both leagues were increasingly high contracts to college stars that did not always achieve professional success, the NFL feeling the pain of the increasing cost and talent loss approached the AFL in 1966 to merge and became one to form the official