College Football Tickets

After a series of player deaths in the collegiate games, Present Roosevelt, in 1906, threatened to ban the sport. The college football became increasingly popular, and also more violent. The most significant person in the history of American football, Camp has rightly been called the ‘Father of American Football.’ Camp pioneered the modern elements of scoring – at least most of them, the eleven man team, the traditional seven man line of offensive setup, the four man backfield, and the play from scrimmage.

The credit of fashioning the game of American Football from rugby, by 1892, goes to the one time captain of the Yale football team – Walter Chauncey Camp. The first ‘rugby-style’ game of college football in the United States took place in 1875, between teams from Harvard and Yale. Rutgers College is now the Rutgers University; College of New Jersey is now the Princeton University; and College Field is where, today, the College Avenue Gymnasium of the Rutgers University stands. This game, which Rutgers won 6-4, was played at College Field in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on November 6, 1869.

The first game of ‘football’ played between two American college teams - Rutgers College and the College of New Jersey - was not a form of Rugby but more akin to soccer.