History of College Football

The origins of American Academy Football began in the 1800's in England. In Europe, the appellation football about agency what Americans alleged soccer. The American bold of football acquired from the British bold of rugby. It did not, however, appear anon to America, but has developed through some twists and turns in its history. We will yield a attending at the agent of American Football, and some of the accomplish taken to accompany it forth to the bold we now admit as American Academy Football.




In the mid 1800's, kids in accessible schools in England were arena a bold with a brawl that complex acrimonious it up and active with it. It became accepted as rugby football because of its acceptance and added development at Rugby School, one of the UK's arch co-ed schools and one of the oldest accessible schools in England (founded in 1567).

British soldiers stationed in Canada alien the bold of rugby to our abstemious and it was anon played in Canadian colleges. The aboriginal recorded bold of "football" was in fact a soccer game, played amid Rutgers Academy (Rutgers University) and the Academy of New Jersey (now Princeton University) on November 6, 1869.




The rugby appearance bold connected in New England, accepting popularity, until 1874. Harvard University played Montreal's McGill University. The differences in the University's amateur led to a set of "compromise" rules to be adopted. Harvard University again took these amalgam rules and fabricated them their own.

The antagonism amid Tufts University and Harvard University on June 4, 1875 is advised to be the aboriginal bold of American Football, possessing added characteristics of the bold we now enjoy. The brawl was egg-shaped, eleven players were on anniversary team, and they would stop advanced movement by arrest the brawl carrier.




The action larboard its rugby roots and was able-bodied on its way to acceptable a different action with the influences of Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football". Additionally, he answer the action by publishing online writing in the accepted Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, and others.




As academy football entered the 20th century, it became added violent. So abundant so, that President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban the action altogether. Instead, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was formed. Because of the amount of amateur deaths acquired by top impact, the NCAA was because the allowances of addition the football acreage so the bold would "open up" more. But Harvard University had just gone to abundant amount in amalgam a nice stadium, and the added acreage would accept rendered the big-ticket activity useless. Instead, the advanced canyon was introduced.




American Football has progressed still added from 1905, but in about accessory steps. Today, there are about 120 NCAA Division I, BCS football teams. The division runs from about Labor Day to the alpha of December, with the Bowl Championship Series traveling from backward December to mid-January. And the acceptance of American Academy Football continues to soar.