This change effectively created the evolution of the modern game of American football from its rugby football origins. College Football 1880 rules convention that the contested scrum be replaced with a " line of scrimmage" where the team with the ball started with uncontested possession. English rugby football rules at the time required a tackled player, when the ball was "fairly held," to put the ball down immediately for scrummage.
On Christmas Day, 1894, Amos Alonzo Stagg and his University of Chicago Maroons defeated Camp's Stanford team 24–4 at San Francisco in an early intersectional contest.Ĭamp was on the various collegiate football rules committees that developed the American game from his time as a player at Yale until his death. He then moved on to Stanford University, where he coached in December 1892 and in 18. In his time with Yale, the team won 67 games and lost just 2 games. Coaching careerĬamp served as the head football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892.
Camp is buried with his wife and children in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven. (1891-1940), who attended Yale as well and was elected as a member of Scroll and Key in 1912, and Janet Camp Troxell (1897-1987). On June 30, 1888, Camp married Alice Graham Sumner, sister of sociologist William Graham Sumner. Harvard player Nathaniel Curtis took one look at Camp, then only 156 pounds, and told Yale captain Gene Baker "You don't mean to let that child play, do you?.
Camp played as a halfback at Yale from 1876 to 1882. The representatives created the rule that each team is only allowed 15 plays per drive. In 1873, Camp attended a meeting where representatives from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale universities created the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA). Camp worked for the New Haven Clock Company beginning in 1883, working his way up to chairman of the board of directors. He attended Yale Medical School from 1880 to 1883, where his studies were interrupted first by an outbreak of typhoid fever and then by work for the Manhattan Watch Company. At Yale he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the Linonian Society, and Skull and Bones. Walter attended Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, entered Yale College in 1875, and graduated in 1880. His first immigrant ancestor was the English colonist Nicholas Camp, who came from Nazeing, Essex, England and arrived in colonial New England in 1630, arriving first in Massachusetts and then moving to Connecticut that same year. Camp was born in New Britain, Connecticut, the son of Leverett Camp and Ellen Sophia (Cornwell) Camp.
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