Michael Anderson Football Club (FC)

1. American Football

2. A 4.0 Student Understands: • The place that football traces it origins back to in the 1800’s • The first two teams that played college football, why they played, who won, and what the score was • Why is a football not Round? • What teams played in the first nighttime football game?

3. Harvard Freshmen vs. Harvard Sophomores • 1827 starts tradition • Football starts off as the “Boston Game” • 1872 – First Football Club started at Harvard “Bloody Monday”

4. Bloody Monday!!! • This annual freshman-sophomore football game was apparently the successor of another annual contest, a wrestling match between the two classes, a Harvard custom in the eighteenth century. Because the freshman-sophomore affair usually ended in a brawl, students got to calling game-day "Bloody Monday."

5. Bloody Monday …. • The annual slaughter increased in brutality each year until finally in 1860 the Faculty outlawed its existence. There were, in that year, better ways for Northern gentlemen to vent their spleen. With an air of defiance, a group of players held a funeral service--complete with procession and eulogy for the sport. • They dug a grave and buried a pigskin. Football at Harvard was officially dead.

7. Who played 1st college football game?

8. Why did they play the game? “The two colleges were, and still are, of course, about 20 miles apart. The rivalry between them was intense. For years each had striven for possession of an old Revolutionary cannon, making night forays and lugging it back and forth time and again. Not long before the first football game, the canny Princetonians had settled this competition in their own favor by ignominiously sinking the gun in several feet of concrete.”

9. Princeton’s Take on the game It all started on a cold day. There was, in fact, a threat of snow in the air that November 6, 1869, when a team of 25 and some faithful followers boarded a train in Princeton for New Brunswick. There, starting at 3 o’clock after a leisurely dinner, some billiards and some girl-watching, Rutgers and Princeton played the first game of intercollegiate football. Accounts of this game are rather hazy, as might be expected. The players simply took off their hats, coats and vests and they were ready. No uniforms. The only color was provided by scarlet turbans the Rutgers boys wore on their heads.

10. Birthplace of College Football • 1st College Football Game • Rutgers vs. Princeton • November 6, 1869 • Final Score 6 to 4

11. Why is a football not Round? • How footballs got to be prolate spheroids? ("round but pointy”) rather than perfectly spherical as all other balls are shaped. As usual with these pivotal episodes in history, it was an accident. • Henry Duffield, who witnessed the second Princeton-Rutgers game in 1869, tells why: "The ball was not an oval but was supposed to be completely round. It never was, though — it was too hard to blow up right. The game was stopped several times that day while the teams called for a little key from the sidelines. They used it to unlock the small nozzle which was tucked into the ball, and then took turns blowing it up. The last man generally got tired and they put it back in play somewhat lopsided."

12. Why is a football not Round? • The odd shape of the ball, eventually enshrined in the rules, was turned to advantage with the introduction of the forward pass in 1906, which was made possible by the fact that you could grip the ball (barely) around the narrow part. • Passing got a lot easier in the 1930s when the rules committee ordered the watermelon of previous decades slimmed down by an inch and a half, opening the door for the modern aerial game. • How fortunate for the future shape of the game that the Ivy Leaguers of yesteryear didn't have any more lung power than today's.

13. The first nighttime football game was played in Mansfield, Pennsylvania on September 28, 1892 between Mansfield State Normal and Wyoming Seminary and ended at halftime in a 0–0 tie.

14. A 4.0 Student Understands: • Why football was almost outlawed • The US President that saved football from possibly being outlawed • The rules changes that were made to make the game safer • Name of organization created to protect amateur athletes

15. Football against the law? • Early in the 20th century, football, as played on college gridirons, was something close to a street fight. • The rules were lax at best, and were routinely ignored. During the 1905 season alone, 18 college and amateur players died. • And despite the growing violence (or, who knows, maybe because of the growing violence), fans were flocking to the games -- the sport was gaining followers.

16. President Roosevelt Saves Football • It wasn’t until 1906, when President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the leaders of college football to make their game safer • Most modern rules actually began to come into play • Birth of the National Collegiate Athletic Association to protect the college players

17. What did Teddy change? • Rugby-style mass formationseliminated • Gang tackling was outlawed • Distance needed for a first down was changed from five yards to ten • “Neutral Zone” was instituted at the line of scrimmage • Increased emphasis on sportsmanship • Most important - a new kind of play was put into the rulebook - The forward pass.

19. OFFENSE DEFENSE • 11 members per side • Must be set before the play begins • 4 chances to go 10 yards • 11 members per side • Can be set or moving before the play begins Football Rules

20. A 4.0 Student Understands: • Who was the “Father of American Football”? • Where does the Heisman award come from? • Who brought football to the children of America? • Who was the 1st “Professional” football player? How much was he paid?

21. Father of American Football • Walter Camp • Coach that helped to spread news about Football from coast to coast • Coached and played at Yale (CONN) before heading to Stanford (California) and bringing game to West Coast

22. Father of American Football • Walter Camp came up with many of the basic rules of football: • Invents modern job of “Quarterback” • Center to Quarterback exchange no longer rolled back to QB • System of 4 downs • Points system – 6 for a touchdown, 1 for a kicked extra point, 2 for a conversion, 3 for a field goal

23. John Heisman • Originator of the “HIKE” call in Football • Came up with 4 Quarters in football • Award bearing his name given out each year to most outstanding college football player • Downtown Athletic Club Award for Most Outstanding College Player

24. “Pop” Warner • Glenn “Pop” Warner also helped start the popular youth American football organization. • “Pop Warner’s Little Scholars” brought football to millions of kids in America.

25. William "Pudge“ Heffelfinger • 1st Professional Football Player • Paid $500 • Allegheny vs. Pittsburgh

27. On September 3, 1895 the first professional game was played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe Athletic Association and the Jeannette Athletic Club.

28. In 1899, the Chicago Cardinals was founded. Today they are known as the Arizona Cardinals making them the Oldest team in the NFL.

29. The National Football League, (THE NFL) was 1st called the “Ohio League” and started in 1903.

34. Review Question #17 F O O T B A L L What was the score of the 1st College football game?

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