The glorious history of football

American football is from early versions of soccer and rugby, both in the UK than in the middle of the 1800th Football and rugby, football and derived, therefore, is to leave the ball at a target or a line. As in soccer, football, 22 players on the pitch. Terms such as "defenders", and agents, to the positions they are also derived from football. Football is the result of a significant departure from the Rugby Football rules created by Walter Camp as the place "Father of American Football. "

The father of American football

Walter Camp Football rules established in 1879. Born 17th April 1859 in New Haven, Connecticut, Walter Camp and economics at the Yale Medical School from 1976 to 1882. He was a man of many talents as a writer, director of the brother of the barrel of the company and the president of the New Haven Clock Company. He was also head football coach for advice and general sports director of Yale from 1888 to 1914 and chairman of the Yale football. Played an important role in the development of football know the game of soccer and rugby as a sport we do today. Walter Camp Chief influence on the change in the rules was William Ebb Ellis, a student in a Rugby School of English, the first person to collect the ball was in the game and runs with it to the target. Massosoit of the Convention in 1876 as the first attempt to define the rules of football was made. Walter Camp publishes frame to the last days of his life in 1925.

New rules

The main changes were made to the Walter Camp Football belong to establish itself as a sport down and distance and the line of scrimmage rules. It has also been standardized scoring system with a numerical score and turbulence, safety, sanctions, and the neutral zone. He also established the rule that one side was the undisputed possession of the ball, the ball comes to equipment violations. He also created the center and the positions of a quarter turn past, and eleven on a computer instead of fifteen. In the late 19th and early 20 Century, changes in the rules of football, and college coaches like Knute Rockne, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Cochem Eddie and Glenn "Pop" Warner.

Pro Va

In the first half of the 20th College football of the century was more popular than football and rugby. Bowl games, drew an inter-university competition, a national audience, reinforce the violent rivalry between college football teams. The American Professional Football Association was very early in 1920 and two years later the National Football League (NFL) was the greatest football league was formed last. Today there are many professional soccer teams from different states, such as the Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers and New York Giants.