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The Game of Football

By madhadder55

  • Pathway to American Football

    Pathway to American FootballThe earliest reference to a game of football involving players passing the ball forward and attempting to score past a goalkeeper was written in 1633 by David Wedderburn, a poet and teacher in Aberdeen, Scotland.

  • The first intercollegiate football match

    The game was played by the Universiy of Rutgers and Princeton University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It is vey likely that they were playing with rules like the current soccer game is played. 6-4 was the final score in favor of Rutgers.
  • Period: to

    The span of Collegiate Football in America

  • Rugby is inroduced

    Rugby is introduced to American eyes in a match played by Harvard University football team and McGill University in Montreal. The rules were mixed to resemble harvards own football rules with rugby rules.

  • The "Boston Game"

    A game played publically that did not use regular rules for kicking bu ustlized a different "running style" which would later lead to the rushing aspect of the game.

  • Contributions by Walter Camp

    The Father of FootballWalter Camp was a Collegiate football coach at Yale where he sat on various rules committees. It is believed that he has made the most contributions to the current college football rule system.

  • President Roosevelt Threatens

    Roosevelt ThreatensAmerican football, in its early years, was an excessively violent game, plagued with several deaths and life-changing injuries every year. The violence became so drastic that President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to shut down the game in 1905, should rules not be changed to minimize this violence.

  • Pop Warner wins Championship #3!!

    Glenn "Pop" Warner wins his 3rd of 4 career national titles and his 3d and final championship with the University of Pittsburgh.

  • Frank Dickinson

    Dickinson adds

  • AP is usedto detmine National Champ

    AP Poll During this time College spors trned to a third pary to help with selection of its potential Natonal Champions.

  • Hall of Fame

    The alleged Father of Fooball and "Pop" Warner get inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach for their national championship wins and early contributions to the sport.

  • Split Titles

    Split Titles The first "split" championship occurred in 1954, when the writers selected Ohio State and the coaches chose UCLA.

  • BCS is inroduced

    A system of ratings using three different computer polls to determine at the end of year which two teams deserve to play for the National Title.

  • The first BCS Title game is played in Tempe, AZ.

    Tennesee downs Florida 23-16

  • BCS Title Game

    In this year the BCS Title game becomes an entity of itself adding an additional game to the mix rtaher than the previous rotationing schedule of the 4 BCS bowls.

  • Alabama vs. LSU (Alabama 21-0)

    This was the first shutout in National Championship history as wel as the first time ever in football that two teams from the same conference played for the title. LSU won 9-6 earlier in the year.