Download - AMERICAN FOOTBALL
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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