👉 How American Football Got Started (Part 1)
How American Football Got Started (Part 2) :
Rugby and American football do have a few major differences, some of the
rule changes were started by Walter Camp who people would call the
Father of American Football. Some of the Major changes that Walter Camp
made were down and distance and line of scrimmage as well as the rule of
down and distance. College coaches like Glen Pop Warner, Amos Alonzo
Stagg and Knute Rockne in the late 19th and 20th centuries changed the
gameplay by intoducing the forward pass. College football grew in
popularity and was the dominant version of football for the first part
of the 20th century. College football had a huge national audiences with
the football Bowl games. College football had big rivalries as it does
today in the United States.
From the year 1892 the origin of
professional football can be traced back to, with a $500 contract to
play football William "Pudge Heffelfinger played football for the
Allegheny Athletic Association playing against the Pittsburgh Athletic
Club. The american Professional Football started in 1920. The first
football game was played in 1920 in Dayton, Ohio on the 3rd of October
with the Triangles winning the game by a score of 14-10 against the
Columbus Panhandles. Two years later the football league changed the
name to National Football League which is known as the NFL and would
become the major league of American football. Professional football
eventually became a national phenomenon after starting out the sport in
the US industrial towns and Midwestern towns. Football after it's NFL
Championship Game in 1958 grew in popularity, the game that was known as
the "Greatest Game Ever Played. The American Football League also known
as the AFL started in 1960 a rival football league to the National
Football League, with the pressure it put between the two football
leagues before the merger of the two leagues is how the start of the
Super Bowl game began. The Super Bowl turned out to be the most watched
television event each and every year in the United States.
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