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	Walter Camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was a football coach known as the "Father of American Football".
		Camp was born in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Leverett L. and Ellen Cornwell Camp.
		Camp is interred at Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Camp (1404 words)

	Walter Camp History Page
		"Walter Camp was one of the giants of football in the United States.
		For almost half a century, from 1876 until his death on March 14, 1925, this noble character was a prominent figure on the football scene and for most of the years he led in giving the game shape and character, and in setting and enforcing standards of fair play and sportsmanship.
		It is for his qualities as a human being, his unselfishness, his sincerity, his leadership in the interests of sportsmanship and fair play---these are the facets of Walter Camp that made him respected and admired in whatever group he gathered.
	www.waltercamp.org /history5.htm (864 words)

	Rivals.com - Dorsey Among Walter Camp POY Candidates
		The fourth-oldest individual college football award in the nation, the Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient will be announced live on the ESPN in early December.
		Camp - a former Yale University athlete and football coach - is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side.
		The Walter Camp Football Foundation - a New Haven-based all-volunteer group - was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team.
	www.rivals.com /content.asp?CID=122122 (238 words)

	Welcome to The Salvation Army Camp Walter Johnson
		Camp Walter Johnson is administered our of The Salvation Army North and South Carolina Divisional Headquarters, in Charlotte, NC, directly under the supervision of the Divisional Youth Secretary.
		Camp Walter Johnson is an ACA (American Camping Association) Accredited Camp.
		Walter Johnson was speaking with his tractor mechanic and they were discussing the things that "young folks" do when they're growing up, how wild they can be and how sometimes, they can even leave home.
	www.salarmy.org /cwj/aboutcwj.html (719 words)

	Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History
		Eligibility requirements were different in Camp's day from today's four year maximum, or, to be precise, there were no eligibility requirements at all except a generally accepted idea that a school's player should in some way be connected with the school.
		Certainly Camp wasn't the only one to see the vast improvement which could be obtained by establishing a method of putting the ball in play which would give to one side its undisturbed possession, thereby permitting a strategic and tactical preparation to advance it.
		Walter Camp performed an equally large and useful public service by establishing the amateur sports of the country upon a sound and wholesome basis.
	www.footballresearch.com /articles/frpage.cfm?topic=d-to1889 (4130 words)

	InventHelp presents - Walter Camp
		Camp attended Yale in the late 1870s where he played on the varsity squads from 1877 to 1882.
		According to waltercamp.org, Camp “brought organization, planning, and stature to the game and served on the rules committee from his college days until his death [in 1925],”; particularly between 1880 and 1883 when the game became less rugby and more American football.
		Camp continued to contribute to the game he helped create, even contributing to the establishment of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), but the violence of the game continued to bog it down.
	www.inventhelp.com /Walter-Camp-Innovator-of-Modern-Football.asp (687 words)

	Walter Camp (1859 - 1925) - Find A Grave Memorial
		Camp was considered instrumental in attaching an almost mythical atmosphere of manliness and heroism to the game, not previously felt in any American sport.
		Camp is credited with giving needed direction to American college football during the period when the sport was growing most rapidly.
		Harold "Red" Grange, the famous University of Illinois Coach once stated "Camp was the No. 1 name in football; if you weren't on the Camp (All America) Team, it didn't mean a thing." Walter Camp passed away in New Haven, Connecticut.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=165 (531 words)

	Walter Camp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Camp used Chadwick’s writing as a guide and carried his style into the 20th century, applying it to football rather than baseball.
		Perhaps Camp’s devotion to heightening the popularity of football was a result of the effort that he had put into the game’s development.
		Camp’s sports stories, which became the first to appear in any magazine, took the field of sportswriting to a higher level and to a new audience.
	www.stolaf.edu /depts/cis/wp/malmgren/coursework/philosophyofsport/waltercamp.html (653 words)

	Walter Camp (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		'''Walter Camp''' (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was a football coach called the "Father of American Football".
		Camp's contributions to early foorball included the introduction of the scrimmage in place of the rugby scrum, the reduction of the number of players to eleven, and the introduction of the now standard arrangement of a seven-man offensive line and a four-man backfield consisting of a quarterback, two halfbacks, and a fullback.
		&8230;Camp is a prime example of how powerful men helped give direction to American College sport during the period it was growing most rapidly.&8221; By his later years, Camp&8217;s role within Yale University had diminished.
	walter-camp.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (1229 words)

	Football (College) -- Special Collections -- Walter Camp Papers
		Walter Chauncey Camp (1859-1925) was without question the single most influential figure in the early history of American football.
		Camp's views on football, and on athletics and physical education in general, were disseminated through his voluminous writings, which include countless newspaper pieces, 200 magazine articles, and close to thirty books.
		The Camp Papers are arranged in five series: Correspondence (Reels 1-20, arranged alphabetically by correspondent); Writings (Reels 21-40, arranged by topic or type in six categories: athletics, physical fitness, general writings, aphorisms, poetry, and miscellaneous writings); Newspaper and Magazine Clippings (Reels 41-45, arranged chronologically); Photographs (Reel 46); and Family Papers (Reels 47-48).
	www.nd.edu /~joycecol/Football/fbcamp.html (511 words)

	Reggie Bush Named Walter Camp Football Foundation Player Of The Year :: Junior tailback becomes the fifth USC player to ...
		The 39th recipient of the Walter Camp Player of the Year award, Bush is the fifth USC player (O.J. Simpson, 1967 and 1968; Charles White, 1979; and Marcus Allen, 1981; and Matt Leinart, 2004) to capture the honor.
		The Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, who is voted on by the nation's 119 Division I-A coaches and sports information directors, is strongly viewed in the college football world as the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy, which will be presented on Saturday evening in New York City.
		Bush and the members of the 2005 Walter Camp All-America team will be honored at the organization's national awards banquet on February 11, 2006 at the Yale University Commons in New Haven.
	www.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/stories/120805abs.html (549 words)

	The Yale Herald - February 15, 2002 - Walter Camp Awards honor all-around players
		This was to be, in the eyes of the Walter Camp Football Foundation, the year the foundation reasserted its place in the college football world.
		But this message was a retrospection and dedication to the lofty ideals of sportsmanship that Walter Camp imbued in the game of football when he set down the rules in 1906.
		Crouch thanked Camp for setting out the rules, but had Walter Camp been there Saturday night, he probably would have been thanking Singletary and Walker, and maybe even Crouch, for making football so relevant to the way they live their lives.
	www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=269 (1317 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / WALTER CAMP AND HIS GRIDIRON GAME
		Walter, the polite and somewhat gawky son of a schoolteacher, was a natural at baseball and also at track, yet at the Hopkins School in New Haven he skipped these genteel sports in favor of vulgar football.
		Camp was re-elected in 1879 and again in ’81 (as a postgraduate medical student).
		Camp had been placed on the intercollegiate football rules committee as a junior in 1878, and he remained on it until his death in 1925.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1961/6/1961_6_50.shtml (4676 words)

	Walter Mason Camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walter Mason Camp (1867-1925) was a respected editor, author, railroad expert and historical researcher.
		Walter Mason Camp is also well-known for interviewing hundreds of both white and Indian participants in the American Indian Wars of the second half of the nineteenth century.
		Although Camp wrote only a few brief papers and speeches, his interview notes are important source material, particularly for researchers dealing with the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Mason_Camp (349 words)

	Walter Mason Camp Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Walter Mason Camp digital collection includes 86 photographic images, centering on Camp’s interest in the Indian Wars of North America occurring between1865 and 1890.
		Of the 86 images, 76 are photographs, 10 backs of photographs are included which have rich information or value, e.g., George Armstrong Custer signatures and notes, and two images which represent the front and back of a calling card with the name of Sitting Bull laboriously written.
		Walter Mason Camp, 1867-1925, a civil engineer and railroad man, aided by a railroad pass, was able to feed his passionate interest in Native American Wars.
	www.lib.byu.edu /camp (209 words)

	Price Compare ISBN 080612279X Custer in '76: Walter Camp's Notes on the Custer Fight by - Direct Textbooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter Camp had the great fortune and drive to visit the critical sites of the old west and seek out and interview actual participants and witnesses.
		Unfortunately, Camp did not survive to put his great efforts into a book but Hammer does the next best thing possible by organizing Camp's would be book and providing editorial commentary to fill in the gaps.
		Camp did a lot not to just record history but to locate historical sites in the remote West like Slim Buttes that without his timely intervention may have otherwise been lost to history.
	www.directtextbook.com /prices/080612279X (539 words)

	www.MackBrown-TexasFootball.com
		The Walter Camp Football Foundation Player of the Year trophy is awarded to the nation's top player who has exemplified the qualities of self-discipline, unselfish team play, desire to excel, mature judgement and respected leadership.
		Presented annually since 1967 in New Haven, Conn., the trophy honors Walter Camp, who is recognized as "the Father of American Football." Camp stands first among the men who sired the game of football as it is played in the United States — the game that evolved from the rugby football of England.
		Ricky Williams is UT's lone Walter Camp Football Foundation Award, having earned the honor in 1998.
	www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com /pages/winningtrads/waltercamp.html (158 words)

	WRAL.com - Sports - NCSU's Rivers Among 5 Finalists For Walter Camp Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The trophy will be awarded at the Camp Foundation's annual national awards banquet on Feb. 14, 2004, at the Yale University Commons in New Haven.
		Walter Camp, a former Yale athlete whom some consider the "Father of American football," first selected an All-America team in 1889.
		The Walter Camp Football Foundation -- a New Haven-based all-volunteer group -- was founded in 1967 to perpetuate Camp's ideals and to continue the tradition of annually selecting the All-America team.
	www.wral.com /sports/2679803/detail.html (416 words)

	Walter Camp rules in favor of Franklin (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Franklin and Greenville agreed to go to the famed Walter Camp -- who picked all the All-America teams -- decide the outcome of their Nov. 2, 1912 game.
		Greenville claimed a safety, which the referee allowed, with the understanding that the matter was to be taken to Mr.
		Camp reversed the decision, quoting the rule that says that the time-kepper must not blow his whistle for the end of the quarter while the ball is in play, but must wait until it becomes dead."
	franklinpafootball.tripod.com.cob-web.org:8888 /id46.htm (281 words)

	Talley Earns NSU’s First Walter Camp All-American Honor
		Talley is the first Spartan ever to be so honored by The Walter Camp Football Foundation, which only picks one All-American team (first-team offense, first-team defense).
		Camp — a former Yale University athlete and football coach — is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to 11 men per side.
		The Walter Camp Football Foundation — a New Haven based all-volunteer group — was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting All-America teams for I-A and I-AA.
	www.nsu.edu /athletics/story.php?id=468 (353 words)

	Newport Running Camp 2006 - Walter Burgess Newport Running Camp Scholarship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter passed away suddenly in November, 2003 at the age of 40 shortly after having completed the Great Floridian Ironman Triathlon.
		Walter was an active member of the PRC, the club's Secretary and newsletter Editor.
		Walter was an enthusiastic participant at Newport Running Camp from 1994-2002.
	www.newportrunningcamps.com /scholarship.html (325 words)

	Scout.com: Brad Banks Finalist For Walter Camp Award
		The fourth-oldest individual college football award in the nation, the Walter Camp Player of the Year will be announced live on ESPN SportsCenter on Thursday, December 12.
		Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side.
		The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team.
	iowa.scout.com /2/75518.html (658 words)

	CNNSI.com - College Football - OU's Heupel, Stoops earn Walter Camp honors - Tuesday November 28, 2000 05:38 PM
		NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- The Walter Camp Football Foundation awarded its player of the year trophy Tuesday to top-ranked Oklahoma's quarterback Josh Heupel and its coach of the year award to the Sooners' Bob Stoops.
		The winner of the Walter Camp trophy, named for the former Yale coach who helped develop the rules of the game, has gone on to win the Heisman Trophy 28 times since it was first awarded in 1967.
		Stoops and Heupel will be formally honored at the Walter Camp 34th national awards banquet on Feb. 10 at the Yale University Commons in New Haven.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/college/news/2000/11/28/camp_awards_ap (297 words)

	Walter (Chauncey) Camp Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		By the age of thirty-three, a scant twelve years after graduating from Yale University, Walter Camp was already known as the "Father of American Football." Sports columnist Caspar Whitney first used the nickname in a column in the popular magazine Harper's Weekly (5 March 1892).
		The title was appropriate, because by 1892 Camp had almost single-handedly fashioned the game of American football.
		Camp knew that developing the game was not enough, however.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/walter-chauncey-camp-dlb (220 words)

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