Walter Camp
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Often called "the father of American football," Walter Camp played a leading role in developing the American gridiron game of football as distinct from rugby football.
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Walter Camp (1859–1925) virtually invented American football, splitting it off from British rugby by such changes as devising the position and signal-calling role of quarterback, cutting team size to 11 from 15, and replacing the somewhat more boisterous free-for-all of the scrum with the…
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