When Walter Camp entered Yale in 1876, "football in America was an outlaw game, a sort of town game, old and direputable,," wrote Harford Powel Jr.., Camps first biographer, in 1926. .... Camp took a Frankensteinian game of styles bolted together and gradually fashioned a new, unified creature that looked and functioned better than before. Whereas teams had struggled over which version of football to play, Camp devised and engineered rules for a codified, uniquely American sport with its own appearance and its own strategy.-- S Reyburn (Library of Congress) Camp is pictured third from the right, top row on his first Yale rugby team in 1876.
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