We will dismiss you in groups of 7-10
Head out to the garden when you are told
The Standardization American football was started in
1873. With rules instituted by Walter Camp, player and
coach at Yale University
The first rules for American football were written.
Walter Camp, who would become known as the father
of American football, first became involved with the
game
People from Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Rutgers
met at a Hotel in New York City to make the first set of
intercollegiate football rules. Before this meeting, each
school had its own set of rules and games were usually
played using the home team's own particular code. At
this meeting, a list of rules, based more on soccer than
on rugby, was drawn up for intercollegiate football
games.
Football started in 1879
American Football Derived from the English
game of rugby.
As like in the last slide soccer helped with the
start of football
In 1892 professional football started
all-american guard william "pudge"
heffelfinger was knows as the first professional
football player
You wonder how crazy the first professional
football game was
America played Canada in a football game in
1895
There are codes of football that share a
common history with American football.
Canadian football is a form of the game that
evolved parallel to American football. While
both games share a common history, there are
some important differences between the two.
The American Football League became the
National Football League in 1920
The American Professional Football
Association was formed in 1918. This league
changed its name to the National Football
League (NFL) two years later(1920) and
eventually became the major league of
American football.
The Heisman trophy is a trophy for the best
college football player
This trophy is introduced in 1935
New York City's Downtown Athletic Club
awarded the first Heisman Trophy to Chicago
halfback Jay Berwanger
An NFL game airs on television for the first
time. The Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia
Eagles were playing on the field. Since fewer
than 1,000 TV sets are known to exist in New
York at the time, it is unclear whether anyone
actually watches the broadcast.
The first televised game in 1939
More people voted in a national survey that
choose pro football over pro baseball as their
favorite sport in 1965
Football has more action then baseball
Green Bay Packers easily defeat the Kansas
City Chiefs to win the first Super Bowl. More
than 32,000 tickets go unsold for the game, held
in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The
game draws more television viewers than any
previous sporting event.
This game took place in 1967
The AFL is affisualy out of the football league
The National Football Conference and The
American Football Conference are formed.
AFC is out in 1970
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