A Brief History Of Football

By cazarger000

  • The Birth Of Football

    The Birth Of Football
    The Roots of Football
    The first game of football, was when teams from Rutgers and Princeton Universities met for a college game. Back then there were 20 players to a team and still resembled rugby than the fooball we now know.

  • Walter Camp, The father of modern football

    Walter Camp, The father of modern football
    [http://www.historyoffootball.net/history_of_football.html](http:// The Father of Football ) Walter Camp, a coach from the Yale football team made some adjustments, an eleven player team, a smaller field, a player handing the ball backward to begin the play. An even more important alteration, if the offensive team failed to gain five yards after three downs they were forced to surrender the ball.

  • Ohio League

    Ohio League
    The Ohio league was the first professional league in the US.

  • High Injury and High Mortality Sport.

    High Injury and High Mortality Sport.
    Eighteen players were killed in 1905 alone This was due to lack of protective gear and the use of interlocking defensive

  • 33 more players died on the field

    33 more players died on the field
    More adjustments to the game Interlocking formation are banned in this year, and more protective padding are given to players.

  • Other changes made at this time

    Other changes made at this time
    Fourth down The addtioin on the Fourth down and the 6 point touchdown

  • Full Skull Protecting Helmet

    Full Skull Protecting Helmet
    The first skull protecting helmets featured newer ear holes and did not lie directly on the players head

  • The Majors

    The Majors
    The summer of June 1920 was when the first <a href='http://http://www.historyoffootball.net/history_of_football.html' ></a> was created. Jim Thorpe olymipc athlete was elected president of the APFA.

  • The National Football league

    The National Football league
    In 1921 the American Professional Football Association changes it's name to theNFL (National Football league)

  • Officials

    Officials
    The appearence of officials had been around just like the sport, but the Additional Officials to make proper call was added in 1929

  • The leauge spilts

    The leauge spilts
    In 1933 the nfl split into two separate divsions, the eastern and western.

  • The facemask

    The facemask
    During the year of 1939 the single bar face mask was introduced

  • Shoulder Pads

    Shoulder Pads
    In the early years of footabll if a player were to useshoulder pads he would be made fun of, but in the start of the year 1960 shouldlers were introduced into the league as sewing leather together.

  • Facemask

    Facemask
    The grabbing of the opponent's facemask was made illegal.

  • Plastic Replaces Leather

    Plastic Replaces Leather
    By 1960 hard plastic shoulder pads were introduced, As a downfall the plastic did speed up overheating.

  • The AFL

    The AFL
    Iin 1960, the league had another division, the American Fooball league, AFL was formed.

  • Superbowl I

    Superbowl I
    The first ever superbowl was held in 1967 in Los Angles, the game played by the top team in the NFL and the AFL leagues.

  • The AFL and NFL merged

    The AFL and NFL merged
    In 1970, the two leagues merge. Branches now form the Nfc and afc.

  • AFC-NFC Pro-bowl

    AFC-NFC Pro-bowl
    The first ever probowl was played. The game is based off of fan votes for the best players in the nfc/afc game

  • Inbounds

    Inbounds
    The Hash-marks that mark inbounds on the field. 23 yards, 1 foot, 9inches from the side lines

  • The Audience

    The Audience
    By 1979, the audience had become over 35.5 million people

  • The game comtinue to evolves.

    the new rule is that during overtime that both teams to have possession of the football in overtime, unless the first team scores.