How Did Walter Camp Invite Football

The Super Bowl gets over 111.3 million viewership. Walter camp made it possible for everyone to be able to watch the Super Bowl. If Walter Camp didn’t invite football then we wouldn't be able to watch the best sport ever---football. So in my eyes Walter Camp invented one of the most eventful sports--football. Camp became a reluctant reformer, he got the idea for rugby to invite football, “the leader of the conservation forces,” when brutality and unethical play threatened the game existences. Walter Camp lived a very interesting and difficult life. Walter Camp was born on April 7, 1859, in New Britain, Conn. According to Ronald A. Smith, WAlter Camp was the son of Leverett L. Camp and Elen Cornwell and married Alice Graham Sumner. Camp went to school at Yale Medical School, he spent four years as an undergraduate, and the final two years as

Camp made it where they're was eleven men on the field at a time. Camp came up with the quarterback position. Walter Camp invented the scrimmage of line. Camp invented the offensive signal calling. (Encyclopedia Britannica 1 and 2) Camp helped create the point system for touchdowns, field goals, points after touchdowns, safeties.(Ronald A. Smith) Camp also made the requirement that a team give up the ball after failing to advance a specified yardage in a certain number of downs.(Encyclopedia Britannica 2) According to Ronald A. Smith, Walter Camp unsuccessfully opposed introduction of the forward pass, which was put into effect in 1906 and eventually led to more open and interesting games. Camp led the movement which transformed rugby football into American football. Camp created the american version of football which became the domnit college sport. Camp nevertheless played the role of gentlemen's, sportsman to the public. Walter Camp often quoted “ Who misses or who wins the prize, Go lose or conquer as you can; But if you fail or if you rise, Be each, Pray God, a