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football begon to be a big time sport
Football didn’t really begin to take on any consistency of rules and boundaries until it was picked up as a sport in the seven major public schools of England in the early 1800’s -
the first game of american football
this is the day when the first football game took place -
they all met in nyc to talk about the formulate
n 1873, representatives from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale Universities met in New York City to formulate the first intercollegiate football rules -
the down system was introduced
In 1882 Camp also introduced the system of downs. After first allowing three attempts to advance the ball five yards -
a touch down became 5 points not 4
In 1898 A touchdown was changed from four points to five -
they change the field goal points
In 1904 A field goal was changed from five points to four. -
most schools were playing the same games
in 1906 the distance was Six of the seven schools were largely playing the same game -
a field goal piont got dropped again to 3 points
in 1909 a field goal dropped from four points to three. -
The fourth down was added
The fourth down was added in 1912. -
the american professional football association was formed
In 1920 the American Professional Football Association was formed.
