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Walter Camp (1859-1925) was a football coach and innovator. As a student at Yale, he played in the first Yale-Harvard game of rugby in 1876. From that point, he brought about the evolution of the American style of football. He established scrimmage line, center snap, downs, 11 players per side and elected the first All-America team in 1889. He was Yale's first football coach.

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The Father of American Football Photos plus biographical information, from the Walter Camp Football Foundation. www.waltercamp.org/history5.htm

Coach Walter Camp on Sportsmanship, 1893 Reprint of text by Walter Camp from his Book of College Sports (New York: Century, 1893), 1-9. www.barnard.columbia.edu/../../strenuous/sportsmanship.htm

Walter Camp Portrait, biographical sketch, photographs and burial information from Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, and interactive visitor comments from Find A Grave. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=165