A Brief History of Football


American Football came about in 1897. Football was derived from the sport Rugby (basically the same game with different rules). 

Walter Camp, the general athletic director and head football coach at Yale University, helped develop rules for the

sport by combining soccer and rugby rules. Walter Camp is known as "the father of football." The first pro football

performance was on November 12, 1892, when William Heffelfinger, of the Allengheny Athlectic Association (AAA), was
 
paid 500 dollars to play against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. in 1896 AAA was the first complete professional team. Finally on

 June 24, 1922 The American Professional Football Association became known as the National Football League (NFL).

By then the NFL acquired 18 football teams.
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Photo courtesy of Pro football Hall of Fame



This is a picture of the NFL team

"Oorang indians," taken in 1922.

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