AMERICAN FOOTBALL By: Kaden Doucette

Scavenger hunt!!!

We will dismiss you in groups of 7-10 Head out to the garden when you are told

Rules

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

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

First Professional 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

American Football vs. Canadian Football

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.

AFL-NFL

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.

NFL

Heisman Trophy is Introduced

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

First televised game

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

Football beats baseball as favorite sport

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

First super bowl

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

AFL is out

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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