Wade(Football)

=History of American Football =

Intercollegiate Football

=Rutgers-Princeton= The first collegiate game was played between Rutgers and Princeton in 1869. This game was played with a round ball like early games. The game was played at Rutgers field and was played by Rutgers rules. It was basically a soccer games because it was two teams of 25 players and you had to kick the ball into the other teams opposing goal. You couldn't carry or throw the ball at all. The first team to get to 6 goals was the winner. Rutgers won the game with a score of 6 to 4.

=Walter Camp= Walter camp is widely known as the "Father of American Football". He was a true born athlete. In his youth years he excelled in track baseball and soccer. When he enrolled in Yale in 1876 in earned varsity honors in every sport that he could. He then went on and started to tweak and make rules for intercollegiate football. He changed the amount of players from 15 to 11. Walter camp's most significant rule change was the creation of the Line of Scrimmage and the snap from the center to the quarterback. They were both passed in the 1980's. His new rules made a great change to the way football is played today. At the 1882 Football rules meeting Camp brought up the subject that a team had to advance the ball more than five yards within three downs. =Scoring= (kick) || Conversion (touchdown) || Safety || Conversion Safety || Defensive Conversion ||
 * Era || Touchdown || Field Goal || Conversion
 * 1883 || 2 || 5 || 4 || - || 1 || - || - ||
 * 1883-1897 || 4 || 5 || 2 || - || 2 || - || - ||
 * 1898-1903 || 5 || 5 || 1 || - || 2 || - || - ||
 * 1904-1908 || 5 || 4 || 1 || - || 2 || - || - ||
 * 1909-1911 || 5 || 3 || 1 || - || 2 || - || - ||
 * 1912-1957 || 6 || 3 || 1 || - || 2 || - || - ||
 * 1958-1988 || 6 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 1 || - ||
 * 1988-Present || 6 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 1 || 2 ||