“He was a guy that could be tough as a coach, but he’d ask how your family was doing. You two, along with your mom, Maura, are forever entrenched in it,” Daniels wrote.

“In a football world where players are treated as numbers, you treated us as people, and stood out,” wrote Ryan Utzler, former running back at Boston College.

Even after they parted ways, Daniels wrote, Horton called him twice a month in the 14 years that passed since his last game at Boston College.

When Daniels suffered a career-ending knee injury years later, Horton was there to support him, he said. As of Wednesday, the fund had raised more than $42,000 for the family.

Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan, Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive lineman Gosder Cherilus and former New York Giants defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka are among Horton’s former players who have donated to the cause.

One day, after an NC State game, Horton’s limited dexterity prevented him from being able to button his shirt. One of the most emotional letters came from former Boston College player DuJuan Daniels, a national scout for the New England Patriots.

“We keep saying over and over we’re going to be all right. One of his players, Russell Wilson, now quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, quietly came over to help the coach.

The story left Horton embarrassed, but it inspired his wife to create MagnaReady, a line of shirts with magnetic buttons for people with disabilities.

In addition to her work as the MagnaReady CEO and fighting to raise Parkinson’s awareness, Maura Horton is fighting to keep the memory of her husband alive for her girls.

“I can assure you that your dad, Don Horton, had a heart of solid gold. “I feel very protective of the girls, and I want them to know how loved they were and how special he was, to be able to be those kind of human beings that will change the world, too.”

When Horton went into a hospice home on May 15, family friend Melanie Walker offered a way for the girls to remember their father forever. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2006 and retired from the football field in 2013. The coach offered him career advice and treated him like “part of his family.”

Their struggle with the disease also inspired Maura to make the lives of other Parkinson’s patients better.

Horton, 58, spent a decade coaching at Boston College and six years at North Carolina State University. They sought in vitro fertilization, and Hadley was born.

“People can make such a difference in such a short time in life,” she said. It was his diagnosis that drove the Hortons to “complete the vision” of what their family was going to be, his wife said. I’m not going to give in,” the 46-year-old said between tears.

“He would be very proud of these young men for helping take care of his girls,” Maura Horton said.

“With Coach Horton, it was the way he made us feel outside the meeting rooms and practice fields,” said former Cleveland Browns offensive lineman Paul Zukauskas. . Ten years after his diagnosis, Horton died surrounded by his two daughters and his wife.

What worries Horton’s wife most is whether Libby, 13, and Hadley, 8, will know who their father really was.

“They need to be who they are going to be but with the values that Don wanted them to have: education and perseverance.”

If you knew Horton or want to share a message, the family asks that you email walkermp@me.com.

A dozen or so former players sent the family letters describing what the coach meant to each of them.

Horton’s wife hopes his legacy will be a lasting one, for their daughters and the world. He really took the time to get to know everybody.”

“I knew he would look after me, just like he promised my mom, sister and grandmother he would with me being hundreds and hundreds of miles away from the only place I had ever known,” Daniels wrote.

“When I sat down with your dad that day at my school, I knew he was the coach that I wanted to follow,” he wrote to Horton’s daughters.

Daniels wrote about how Horton came to his high school in Indiana to meet him and how he later helped ease the player’s cross-country move to North Carolina.

Hadley only knew him with this disease. Many of the letters noted the same thing and suggested why: Horton believed in his players, or his men, as he called them.

Football wasn’t the only thing Horton cared about, he added: “He cared about school, he cared about your family, he cared about you, the kid he was welcoming into his family.

“I am happy to call you two my ‘little sisters.’ “

When Zukauskas, now a high school football coach in Massachusetts, learned of Horton’s illness, he called the coach’s wife, Maura Horton, to see how he could help.

Zukauskas, Ricky Brown and Al Washington, all former players from Boston College, set up a GoFundMe page in April to raise money for hospital expenses and an education fund for Horton’s two daughters. I’m not letting in, because it’ll just be me single parenting. She asked friends, family and former players to write letters to Horton’s daughters, sharing their favorite memories of the coach.

Daniels said he felt safe and cared for

They each have a computer to vote on, and they debate and rank the teams in groups of six or eight. You can find the full recusal list here.

THE PROCESS

The selection committee meets at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas, every Monday and Tuesday, starting Oct. 4, 12 p.m. No. 4. 31 this year. If a conference champion qualifies for the playoff, the bowl losing that team chooses a replacement from that conference. 2, 5 p.m., ESPN

o Allstate Sugar Bowl, Jan. 2, 8 p.m. They each come prepared with their own preliminary top 30 but only rank 25.

The selection committee consists of 12 people: Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt (chair); Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez; former Southern Miss coach Jeff Bower; former Central Michigan coach Herb Deromedi; former NCAA executive Tom Jernstedt; former Vanderbilt coach Bobby Johnson; Arkansas AD Jeff Long; Oregon AD Rob Mullens; Clemson AD Dan Radakovich; Condoleezza Rice; retired sports reporter Steve Wieberg; and former coach Tyrone Willingham. Exhale. Two committee members are assigned as monitors for each conference. 

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Playoff semifinals: Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic & Capital One Orange Bowl

College Football Playoff National Championship: Santa Clara, Calif.

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Playoff semifinals: Allstate Sugar Bowl & Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual

College Football Playoff National Championship: Atlanta, Ga.

They are guided by these criteria (not weighted) when choosing their top four teams:

oChampionships won

oStrength of schedule

oHead-to-head competition

oComparative outcomes of common opponents (without incenting margin of victory)

THE WEEKLY RANKINGS

Each week, starting on Nov. 30, 8 p.m., ET, ESPN

o Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Jan. 22, 7 p.m. Repeat.

As semesters begin across the country, here’s your CFP 101 for 2016:

THE GAMES

The semifinals: Chick-fil-A  Peach Bowl and Fiesta Bowl, both Dec. 1 vs. 29, 7 p.m. 9 on ESPN in Tampa, Florida (it’s always on a Monday).

THE PEOPLE

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Capital One Orange Bowl: Clemson 37, Oklahoma 17

Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic: Alabama 38, Michigan State 0

Inhale. and 7 p.m ET on ESPN.

Their duties include:

o Six weekly top-25 rankings, beginning Nov.

o Selecting the highest-ranked champion from the Group of 5 (MAC, Mountain West, American, Sun Belt, Conference USA) for a New Year’s Six bowl.

There are coaches everywhere who study the sport for a living and can’t answer those questions. 3. ET, ESPN

o Sunday, Dec. ET, ESPN

o Tuesday, Nov. The CFP is entering its third season, yet there’s still plenty of confusion over how it all works.

The College Football Playoff semifinals this year are in which bowls? The committee releases its rankings when? Who’s on the committee?

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Playoff semifinals:  Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl & Fiesta Bowl

College Footblal Playoff National Championship: New Orleans, La.

o Tuesday, Nov. No. 4. 4, and No.

College Football Playoff National Championship: Jan.

The highest-ranked team from the Group of 5 conferences is guaranteed a spot in a New Year’s Six bowl.. 1, the committee will unveil its top-25 rankings on ESPN’s College Football Playoff: Top 25. The other New Year’s Six game is the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic.

Nine of the 12 committee members are affected by the CFP’s recusal policy, which prohibits a committee member from voting for a team they or an immediate family member receive compensation from or have a professional relationship with. ET, ESPN

THE CFP MATCHUPS

The committee doesn’t try to avoid regular-season rematches in the semifinals: It’s No. They will, however, try to avoid rematches in the other New Year’s Six bowls.

College Football Playoff National Championship: Alabama 45, Clemson 40

THE FUTURE

New Year’s Six schedule:

o Capital One Orange Bowl, Dec. 31.

o Selecting the top four teams for the playoff, ranking and assigning them to semifinal sites. Kickoffs will be at 3 p.m. ET, ESPN

o Tuesday, Nov. ET, ESPN

o Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual, Jan. Former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr had to step down due to health reasons.

You can find more detailed bios of the committee here. When those bowls host the semifinals and their contracted conference champs do not qualify, the displaced champion(s) will play in a different New Year’s bowl. ET, ESPN

THE HISTORY 2014

Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual: Oregon 59, Florida State 20

Allstate Sugar Bowl: Ohio State 42, Alabama 35

College Football Playoff National Championship: Ohio State 42, Oregon  20

Both teams for the Capital One Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual and Allstate Sugar Bowl are contracted outside the playoff arrangement (Big Ten and Pac-12 to the Rose Bowl; SEC and Big 12 to the Sugar Bowl; and ACC to the Orange Bowl against the highest-ranked team available from the SEC, Big Ten and Notre Dame). 2, 1 p.m. And oh yeah, the second ranking just happens to fall on election night. 1, 7 p.m. 2 vs. 1 and ending on Dec. 8, 7 p.m. 15, 9 p.m. ET, ESPN

o Tuesday, Nov. ET, ESPN

o Tuesday, Nov. There will be weekly updates, culminating with the final rankings on Dec

“Sewanee, long-lost member of the SEC”.

^ “On the 7th Day They Rested” (PDF).

^ “Grantland Rice”. (1991). Church took over the coaching position in the fall for the rest of the season. November 27, 2011. The IAAUS was the original rule making body of college football, but would go on to sponsor championships in other sports. Retrieved 30 May 2012.

^ Edmonston Jr., George. Consequently, Stanford is USC’s oldest existing rival.[86] The Big Game between Stanford and Cal on November 11, 1905 was the first played at Stanford Field, with Stanford winning 12-5.[63]

Sewanee’s 1899 “Iron Men.”

^ While Still the Nation’s Favorite Sport, Professional Football Drops in Popularity – Baseball and college football are next in popularity at the Harris Interactive website, accessed 28 January 2010.

^ “University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries” (PDF). of C. The other three current FBS independents, Army, BYU, and Massachusetts, are also considered to be part of this group. Later changes made it possible to snap the ball with the hands, either through the air or by a direct hand-to-hand pass.[16]Rugby league followed Camp’s example, and in 1906 introduced the play-the-ball rule, which greatly resembled Camp’s early scrimmage and center-snap rules. It was a recollection of the birth of Colorado football written by one of CU’s original gridders, John C. The Yale team was coached and captained by David Schley Schaff, who had learned to play football while attending Rugby school. (California’s two-year institutions are not under NJCAA jurisdiction and only compete for state championships.)

Club football, a sport in which student clubs run the teams instead of the colleges themselves, is overseen by two organizations: the National Club Football Association and the Intercollegiate Club Football Federation. The new NCAA rule applies to penalties on both sides of the ball.

Players lined up outside the tackle box–more specifically, those lined up more than 7 yards from the center–will now be allowed to block below the waist only if they are blocking straight ahead or toward the nearest sideline.

On placekicks, no offensive lineman can now be engaged by more than two defensive players. Division III institutions also field teams, but do not offer any scholarships.

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Further elated by the excitement of McGill’s version of football, Harvard challenged its closest rival, Yale, to which the Bulldogs accepted. On May 30, 1879 Michigan beat Racine College 1-0 in a game played in Chicago. Starting with the third overtime, a one-point PAT field goal after a touchdown is no longer allowed, forcing teams to attempt a two-point conversion after a touchdown. Dartmouth played its own version called “Old division football”, the rules of which were first published in 1871, though the game dates to at least the 1830s. A (October 1913 – March 1914). The WAC, after seeing all but two of its football members leave, dropped football after the 2012 season. The Bowl Subdivision has historically not used an organized tournament to determine its champion, and instead teams compete in post-season bowl games. Retrieved 2007-05-19.

^ Vancil (2000), pp 20

^ “WorldCat entry for Football for Coaches and Players”. “College Football in Kansas”. sporting event.[76]

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The University of Colorado began playing American football in 1890. The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) was founded on December 21, 1894, by Dr. The last team from the non-AQ ranks to reach a BCS bowl game in the BCS era was Northern Illinois in 2012, which played in (and lost) the 2013 Orange Bowl.

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Organized intercollegiate football was first played in the state of Minnesota on September 30, 1882 when Hamline was convinced to play Minnesota. The Lions traveled from New York City to New Brunswick on November 12, 1870 and were defeated by Rutgers 6 to 3. Oklahoma, under coach Bud Wilkinson, won three national titles (1950, 1955, 1956) and all ten Big Eight Conference championships in the decade while building a record 47-game winning streak. Retrieved 2007-08-17.

^ “NCAA Football Rules Committee Votes To Restore Plays While Attempting To Maintain Shorter Overall Game Time”. Bill Traughber. The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889. The resultant collisions often led to serious injuries and sometimes even death.[93] Georgia fullback Richard Von Albade Gammon notably died on the field from concussions received against Virginia in 1897, causing Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Mercer to suspend their football programs.

The 10 FBS conferences are formally and popularly divided into two groups:

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At the beginning of the first semester in the fall of ’90 the boys rooming at the dormitory on the campus of the U. The champions of these six conferences, along with two “at-large” selections, were invited to play in the four bowl games. 2007. The NFL, which previously treated the ball as dead during a conversion attempt–meaning that the attempt ended when the defending team gained possession of the football–adopted the college rule in 2015.

The two-minute warning is not used in college football, except in rare cases where the scoreboard clock has malfunctioned and is not being used.

There is an option to use instant replay review of officiating decisions. Accessed March 11, 2015

^ Will Perry (1974). 2007. 63: 742-750.

^ “History”. Retrieved 2006-11-29.

^ “1872 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Schedule and Results”. Retrieved 2011-10-06.

^ Steven Salzberg, “Football is corrupting America’s universities: it needs to go”, Forbes, November 26, 2011, http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2011/11/26/football-is-corrupting-americas-universities-it-needs-to-go/

^ Jay Schalin, “Time for universities to punt football”, Washington Times, September 1, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/1/time-for-universities-to-punt-football/?page=all

^ Laura Pappano, “How Big-Time Sports Ate College Life”, New York Times, January 20, 2012.

^ Jonah Newman, “Coaches, Not Presidents, Top Public-College Pay List”, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 16, 2014, http://chronicle.com/blogs/data/2014/05/16/coaches-not-presidents-top-public-college-pay-list/

^ One reference among many: Walt Bogdanich, “A Star Player Accused, and a Flawed Rape Investigation”, New York Times, April 16, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/16/sports/errors-in-inquiry-on-rape-allegations-against-fsu-jameis-winston.html

^ Gregg Doyel, “Time to pay college football players — changing times, money say so”, CBS Sports, September 25, 2013, http://www.cbssports.com/general/writer/gregg-doyel/23838595/its-time-pay-college-football-players—-changing-times-money-say-so

^ Rod Gilmore, “College football players deserve pay for play”, ESPN College Football, January 17, 2007, http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?id=2733624

^ Taylor Branch, “The Shame of College Sports”, The Atlantic, October, 2011, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/

^ Ben Strauss and Marc Tracy, “N.C.A.A. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics also holds a playoff.

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Organized intercollegiate football was first played in the state of Virginia and the south on November 2, 1873 in Lexington between Washington and Lee and VMI. To Whittemore’s surprise, Camp agreed to coach the team himself, on the condition that he finish the season at Yale first.[63] As a result of Camp’s late arrival, Stanford played just three official games, against San Francisco’s Olympic Club and rival California. Six major bowl games (the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, Orange, Peach, and Fiesta) rotate on a three-year cycle as semifinal games, with the winners advancing to the College Football Playoff National Championship. Retrieved February 9, 2015.

^ Melvin I. Retrieved 2009-10-11.

“NFL History by Decade: 1911-1920.” National Football League. Rather than simply a regional team, Rockne’s “Fighting Irish” became famous for barnstorming and played any team at any location. Journals.humankinetics.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2007-05-19.

^ Vancil (2000), pp 18

^ John S. Stanford: Home of Champions. p. 21. It appears here in its original form:

In 1998, a new system was put into place called the Bowl Championship Series. Notre Dame, one of the biggest passing teams of the decade, saw a substantial decline in success; the 1950s were the only decade between 1920 and 1990 when the team did not win at least a share of the national title. However, both Group of Five teams selected for New Year’s Six bowls (Boise State in 2014 and Houston in 2015) won their games.

Official rules and notable rule distinctions

See also: American football rules

Columbia University was the third school to field a team. “Yellow Jackets-Cumberland Score Was Record One; Tops the List According to Statistics Compiled Showing All Scores Past the Century Mark”. The trophy recognizes the nation’s “most outstanding” college football player and has become one of the most coveted awards in all of American sports.[134]

The 1950s saw the rise of yet more dynasties and power programs. The games remained largely unorganized until the 19th century, when intramural games of football began to be played on college campuses. (1916-10-15). Possessions alternate with each overtime, until one team leads the other at the end of the overtime. College Football Data Warehouse. Pitt won 21-13.[109] On October 28, 1922, Princeton and Chicago played the first game to be nationally broadcast on radio. Walter, who would enroll at Yale the next year, was torn between an admiration for Harvard’s style of play and the misery of the Yale defeat, and became determined to avenge Yale’s defeat. Yet others have countered that the increased number of games has increased exposure and revenue for a greater number of schools, and see it as a positive development.[146]

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In 1906 Vanderbilt defeated Carlisle 4 to 0, the result of a Bob Blake field goal.[115][116] In 1907 Vanderbilt fought Navy to a 6 to 6 tie. National Collegiate Athletic Association. Eugene, Oregon: McCann Communications Corp. The two competing sanctioning bodies have some overlap, and several clubs are members of both organizations.

The Collegiate Sprint Football League governs nine teams, all in the northeast. Other games came along and used the term “bowl”, whether the stadium was shaped like a bowl or not.

A pass is ruled complete if one of the receiver’s feet is inbounds at the time of the catch. Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession. On October 12, 1929, Yale lost to Georgia in Sanford Stadium in its first trip to the south. No minor league farm organizations exist in American football. Retrieved May 6, 2014.

^ “Amos Alonzo Stagg and Football at Chicago”.

^ Edwin Pope. PMID 4903389.

^ Watterson, John (2001). In 1918, the rules on eligible receivers were loosened to allow eligible players to catch the ball anywhere on the field–previously strict rules were in place allowing passes to only certain areas of the field.[103] Scoring rules also changed during this time: field goals were lowered to three points in 1909[7] and touchdowns raised to six points in 1912.[104]

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Partly as a compromise between both bowl game and playoff supporters, the NCAA created the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) in 1998 in order to create a definitive National Championship game for college football. The next season, with many players gone due to World War I, a game was finally scheduled at Forbes Field with Pittsburgh. Associated Press. Parker, decreed that American football was the appropriate athletic activity to train soldiers and rugby union was dropped.[87]

The 1893 Stanford American football team

College football is a controversial institution within American higher education, where the amount of money involved–what people will pay for the entertainment provided–is a corrupting factor within universities that they are usually ill-equipped to deal with.[154][155] According to William E. Both Donahue and McGugin just came from the north that year, Donahue from Yale and McGugin from Michigan, and were among the initial inductees of the College Football Hall of Fame.

^ DeLassus, David. An intercollegiate game was first played in the state of New York when Rutgers played Columbia on November 2, 1872. ISBN 978-0-7948-2647-5.

^ “Wake Forest: A Look Back”.

^ “Furman University – 2014 FB Record Book”. As conferences became contractually bound to certain bowl games (a situation known as a tie-in), match-ups that guaranteed a consensus national champion became increasingly rare. If the kick was missed, the try did not score any points itself.

College football increased in popularity through the remainder of the 19th and early 20th century. Retrieved 2009-10-11.

“NFL History by Decade: 1869-1910.” National Football League. Overtime for regular season games in the NFL began with the 1974 season. An invitation was also extended to Los Angeles High School.[62]

Canadian football, which parallels American football, is played by collegiate teams in Canada under the auspices of Canadian Interuniversity Sport. Harvard University Sports Information Office. They are then invited to a bowl game based on their conference ranking and the tie-ins that the conference has to each bowl game. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

^ Greg Roza, Football in the SEC (Southeastern Conference), p. The Harvard students responded by going into mourning for a mock figure called “Football Fightum”, for whom they conducted funeral rites. Retrieved 2010-01-26.

^ Meacham, Scott (2006). Three of the schools–Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton–formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, as a result of the meeting. For its first thirty years, the RMAC was considered a major conference equivalent to today’s Division I, before 7 larger members left and formed the Mountain States Conference (also called the Skyline Conference).

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Led by coach Fielding H. The Coalition lasted for three years; however, several scheduling issues prevented much success; tie-ins still took precedence in several cases. The team also played exhibition games against two Los Angeles area teams that Stanford does not include in official results.[64][65] Camp returned to the East Coast following the season, then returned to coach Stanford in 1894 and 1895.

Early games appear to have had much in common with the traditional “mob football” played in England. D. “Sport Slants”. This happened in the final year of the Bowl Alliance, with Michigan winning the 1998 Rose Bowl and Nebraska winning the 1998 Orange Bowl. Yost, Michigan became the first “western” national power. He was so famous at that point that his funeral was broadcast nationally on radio.[121][126]

Division II and Division III of the NCAA also participate in their own respective playoffs, crowning national champions at the end of the season. Students and alumni began to clamor for a return to American football to allow wider intercollegiate competition.[87] The pressure at rival California was stronger (especially as the school had not been as successful in the Big Game as they had hoped), and in 1915 California returned to American football. On the coaching staff of those 1944-1946 Army teams was future Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi.[131][135]

The University of Southern California first fielded an American football team in 1888. In 1910 Vanderbilt held defending national champion Yale to a scoreless tie.[116]

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Football teams in Division I are further divided into the Bowl Subdivision (consisting of the largest programs) and the Championship Subdivision. As reasons for the change, the school cited rule change back to American football, the overwhelming desire of students and supporters to play American football, interest in playing other East Coast and Midwest schools, and a patriotic desire to play an “American” game.[87] California’s return to American football increased the pressure on Stanford to also change back in order to maintain the rivalry. Retrieved May 6, 2014.

^ “Stanford Game-by-Game Results; 1892-1895″. How to Scout Football. Those not selected can still attempt to land an NFL roster spot as an undrafted free agent.

January 30, 1892 saw the first football game played in the Deep South when the Georgia Bulldogs defeated Mercer 50-0 at Herty Field.

In 1940, for the highest level of college football, there were only five bowl games (Rose, Orange, Sugar, Sun, and Cotton). The first of these happened on November 11, 1876 in Philadelphia and was the first intercollegiate game in the state of Pennsylvania.

Durung 12 seasons of playing rugby union, Stanford was remarkably successful: the team had three undefeated seasons, three one-loss seasons, and an overall record of 94 wins, 20 losses, and 3 ties for a winning percentage of .816. The annual Big Game between Stanford and California continued as rugby, with the winner invited by the British Columbia Rugby Union to a tournament in Vancouver over the Christmas holidays, with the winner of that tournament receiving the Cooper Keith Trophy.[87][88][89]

The BCS ended after the 2013 season and, since the 2014 season, the FBS national champion has been determined by a four-team tournament known as the College Football Playoff (CFP). For the current season of Championship Subdivision play, see 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season.

In 1935, New York City’s Downtown Athletic Club awarded the first Heisman Trophy to University of Chicago halfback Jay Berwanger, who was also the first ever NFL Draft pick in 1936. Princeton Alumni Weekly. (2007). Minnesota won 2 to 0.[36] It was the first game west of the Mississippi River.

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Several major modern college football conferences rose to prominence during this time period. These games are played from mid-December to early January and most of the later bowl games are typically considered more prestigious.

In the early 1930s, the college game continued to grow, particularly in the South, bolstered by fierce rivalries such as the “South’s Oldest Rivalry”, between Virginia and North Carolina and the “Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry”, between Georgia and Auburn. The Rose Bowl included Roy Riegels’ wrong-way run. Dubbed “The First Greatest Game of the Century,”[37] broke Michigan’s 56-game unbeaten streak and marked the end of the “Point-a-Minute” years.

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The first college football game in Oklahoma Territory occurred on November 7, 1895 when the ‘Oklahoma City Terrors’ defeated the Oklahoma Sooners 34 to 0. In lieu of an actual national championship, these bowl games, along with the earlier Rose Bowl, provided a way to match up teams from distant regions of the country that did not otherwise play. 11 (3): 33.

^ Goldsmith, A. Retrieved 2007-05-15.

^ “1800s”. Players who became famous for taking advantage of the easier passing game included Alabama end Don Hutson and TCU passer “Slingin” Sammy Baugh.[133]

Tom Davies runs against undefeated and unscored upon Georgia Tech in the 1918 game at Forbes Field.

As professional football became a national television phenomenon, college football did as well. Navy won 24-0.

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Inasmuch as Rugby football had been transplanted to Canada from England, the McGill team played under a set of rules which allowed a player to pick up the ball and run with it whenever he wished. Inside”) and Glenn Davis (known as “Mr. In 1927, his complex shifts led directly to a rule change whereby all offensive players had to stop for a full second before the ball could be snapped. On November 13, 1875, Yale and Harvard played each other for the first time ever, where Harvard won 4-0. September 14, 1923.

^ cf. Though no longer a player, he remained a fixture at annual rules meetings for most of his life, and he personally selected an annual All-American team every year from 1889 through 1924. Woody Hayes led Ohio State to two national titles, in 1954 and 1957, and dominated the Big Ten conference, winning three Big Ten titles–more than any other school. The next year Vanderbilt fought Michigan to a scoreless tie at the inaugural game at Dudley Field (now Vanderbilt Stadium), the first stadium in the South made exclusively for college football. Division I FBS schools use replay in virtually all games; replay is rarely used in lower division games. “Tiny Maxwell and the Crisis of 1905: The Making of a Gridiron Myth” (PDF). It is in college football where a player’s performance directly impacts his chances of playing professional football. 16 Stanford”. Bernstein. The first game was played on San Francisco’s Haight Street Grounds on March 19, 1892 with Stanford winning 14-10. Ingrassia, The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education’s Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football. It was also the first scoreless tie in the history of the fledgling sport.[21]Yale football starts the same year and has its first match against Columbia, the nearest college to play football. In the thirty years from 1950 to 1980, seven bowl games were added to the schedule. Harts had left to prospect for gold in the Arctic.[59][60] Organized football was first played in the territory on November 29, 1894 between the Oklahoma City Terrors and Oklahoma City High School. (1995). From 1980 to 2008, an additional 20 bowl games were added to the schedule.[144][145] Some have criticized this growth, claiming that the increased number of games has diluted the significance of playing in a bowl game. The Harvard students took to the rugby rules and adopted them as their own,[3][10][11] The games featured a round ball instead of a rugby-style oblong ball.[11] This series of games represents an important milestone in the development of the modern game of American football.[12][13] In October 1874, the Harvard team once again traveled to Montreal to play McGill in rugby, where they won by three tries.

On November 6, 1869, Rutgers University faced Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey) in the first-ever game of intercollegiate football. Finally, on December 28, 1905, 62 schools met in New York City to discuss rule changes to make the game safer. Atlanta Constitution. Between 1890 and 1905, 330 college athletes died as a direct result of injuries sustained on the football field. Consisting mostly of schools from Texas, the conference saw back-to-back national champions with Texas Christian University (TCU) in 1938 and Texas A&M in 1939.[128][129] The Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), a precursor to the Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12), had its own back-to-back champion in the University of Southern California which was awarded the title in 1931 and 1932.[128] The Southeastern Conference (SEC) formed in 1932 and consisted mostly of schools in the Deep South.[130] As in previous decades, the Big Ten continued to dominate in the 1930s and 1940s, with Minnesota winning 5 titles between 1934 and 1941, and Michigan (1933, 1947, and 1948) and Ohio State (1942) also winning titles.[128][131]

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College football expanded greatly during the last two decades of the 19th century. Thus, only Division I wins (whether FBS, FCS, or FCS non-scholarship) are considered for playoff selection. April 27, 1924.

^ Dan McGugin (1907). 1, 2007, ISBN 1-4042-1919-6.

^ Bailey, John Wendell (1924). Camp’s innovations in the area of point scoring influenced rugby union’s move to point scoring in 1890. In addition, if the defensive team gains possession, but then moves backwards into the end zone and is stopped, a one-point safety will be awarded to the offense, although, unlike a real safety, the offense kicks off, opposed to the team charged with the safety. ISBN 978-0873970556.

^ “Harvard Football Timeline”. Starting with the 2015 season, the NFL uses the 15-yard line as the line of scrimmage for placekick attempts, but the two-yard line for two-point attempts. p. D5.

^ a b “College Bowl Games”. It ended when Stanford requested and Michigan agreed to end it with 8 minutes on the clock. The Dallas Morning News. Nixon (1898-12-16). During this streak, Michigan scored 2,831 points while allowing only 40.[35]

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It is thought that the first forward pass in football occurred on October 26, 1895 in a game between Georgia and North Carolina when, out of desperation, the ball was thrown by the North Carolina back Joel Whitaker instead of punted and George Stephens caught the ball.[48] On November 9, 1895 John Heisman executed a hidden ball trick utilizing quarterback Reynolds Tichenor to get Auburn’s only touchdown in a 6 to 9 loss to Vanderbilt. Outside”) both won the Heisman Trophy, in 1945 and 1946 respectively. Notre Dame remains a football independent, but is counted among the Power Five because of its full but non-football ACC membership, including a football scheduling alliance with that conference. Harvard, however, preferred to play a rougher version of football called “the Boston Game” in which the kicking of a round ball was the most prominent feature though a player could run with the ball, pass it, or dribble it (known as “babying”). 2015 NCAA Football Records: Football Bowl Subdivision Records. Athletics were banned at the school in May 1892, but when the strict school president, Benjamin Arnold, died, President John Bloss reversed the ban.[82] Bloss’s son William started the first team, on which he served as both coach and quarterback.[83] The team’s first game was an easy 63-0 defeat over the home team, Albany College.

The establishment of the CFP followed a tumultuous period of conference realignment in Division I. San Francisco Chronicle. The game was essentially soccer with 20-man sides, played on a field 400 by 250 feet. Lincoln Evening Journal. It is claimed by Georgetown authorities as the game with the first ever “roving center” or linebacker when Percy Given stood up, in contrast to the usual tale of Germany Schulz.[56] The first linebacker in the South is often considered to be Frank Juhan.

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This article is about gridiron football played at a collegiate level in the United States. “Changing seasons: Y. Later in 1870, Princeton and Rutgers played again with Princeton defeating Rutgers 6-0. Joseph M. This allowed the four other BCS bowls to use their normal selection process to select the teams in their games while the top two teams in the BCS rankings would play in the new National Championship Game.. That changed with the debut of the four-team College Football Playoff at the end of the 2014 season.

A college that fields a team in the NCAA is not restricted from fielding teams in club or sprint football, and several colleges field two teams, a varsity (NCAA) squad and a club or sprint squad (no schools, as of 2015, field both club and sprint teams at the same time).

By 1873, the college students playing football had made significant efforts to standardize their fledgling game. “From Football to Rugby–and Back, 1906-1919: The University of California-Stanford University Response to the “Football Crisis of 1905″” (PDF). This is where the name came into use, as it became known as the Rose Bowl Game. These down-and-distance rules, combined with the establishment of the line of scrimmage, transformed the game from a variation of rugby football into the distinct sport of American football.[16]

The 1894 Harvard-Yale game, known as the “Hampden Park Blood Bath”, resulted in crippling injuries for four players; the contest was suspended until 1897. It is recalled memorably with the phrase “… and on the seventh day they rested.”[51][52]Grantland Rice called them “the most durable football team I ever saw.”[53]

The 1930s saw growth in the passing game. Accessed 29 January 2007.

^ a b Parke H. dartmo.com. Incidentally, rugby was to make a similar change to its scoring system 10 years later.[16]

Old “Football Fightum” had been resurrected at Harvard in 1872, when Harvard resumed playing football. The Terrors were a mix of Methodist college students and high schoolers.[58] The Sooners did not manage a single first down. Handbook of Southern Intercollegiate Track and Field Athletics. But no record has been found of the score of this contest. The motion was rejected at that time but passed in 1880. The following season saw Vanderbilt execute a double pass play to set up the touchdown that beat Sewanee in a meeting of unbeatens for the SIAA championship. National Collegiate Athletic Association. The wishbone is a run-heavy offense that depends on the quarterback making last second decisions on when and to whom to hand or pitch the ball to. Nixon was elected president and Holden secretary of the association.

The system continued to change, as the formula for ranking teams was tweaked from year to year. The CFP is a four-team tournament whose participants are chosen and seeded by a 13-member selection committee. “Section 11–Extra Points.” 2008 Football Statisticians’ Manual. The University of Denver and the University of Utah joined the RMAC in 1910. Division II primarily consists of smaller public and private institutions that offer fewer scholarships than those in Division I. Yale, under pressure from the city of New Haven, banned the play of all forms of football in 1860.[3]

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Harvard quickly took a liking to the rugby game, and its use of the try which, until that time, was not used in American football. reprinted from Official Super Bowl XXXIII Game Program.

^ Vancil (2000) pp 46-48

^ Vancil (2000), pp 56

^ Bennett (1976), Appendix pp 209-217

^ a b Call, Jeff (December 20, 2006). In many cases, college stadiums employ bench-style seating, as opposed to individual seats with backs and arm rests. Professional Football Researchers Association. Tales from the Oregon Ducks Sideline. Organized competition in American football also exists at the collegiate level in Mexico (ONEFA), the UK (British Universities American Football League), Japan (Japan American Football Association, Koshien Bowl), and South Korea (Korea American Football Association).

The Big Game between Stanford and California was played as rugby union from 1906 to 1914.

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The first bowl game was the 1902 Rose Bowl, played between Michigan and Stanford; Michigan won 49-0. Under the current playoff structure, the top eight teams are all seeded, and receive a bye week in the first round. Davis. Pennsylvania”. reconnects with past, but bowl scene not the same”. Traditional tie-ins were maintained for schools and bowls not part of the national championship. Washington and Lee won 4-2.[38] Some industrious students of the two schools organized a game for October 23, 1869 – but it was rained out.[39] Students of the University of Virginia were playing pickup games of the kicking-style of football as early as 1870, and some accounts even claim it organized a game against Washington and Lee College in 1871; but no record has been found of the score of this contest. Mary’s, Santa Clara, and USC (in 1911).[87] However, due to the perception that West Coast football was inferior to the game played on the East Coast anyway, East Coast and Midwest teams shrugged off the loss of the teams and continued playing American football.[87] With no nationwide movement, the available pool of rugby teams to play remained small.[87] The schools scheduled games against local club teams and reached out to rugby union powers in Australia, New Zealand, and especially, due to its proximity, Canada. The first team to reach six goals was declared the winner. Retrieved 2007-06-01.

^ a b c “BCS Chronology”. Royal went on to teach the offense to other coaches, including Bear Bryant at Alabama, Chuck Fairbanks at Oklahoma and Pepper Rodgers at UCLA; who all adapted and developed it to their own tastes.[142] The strategic opposite of the wishbone is the spread offense, developed by professional and college coaches throughout the 1960s and 1970s. New York Times. In 1966, rugby league introduced a four-tackle rule (changed in 1972 to a six-tackle rule) based on Camp’s early down-and-distance rules.

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Organized intercollegiate football was first played in the state of Florida in 1901.[54] A 7-game series between intramural teams from Stetson and Forbes occurred in 1894. Kicked tries count as one point. ACTIVE.com. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

^ White, Gordon (January 8, 1979). President Theodore Roosevelt reportedly threatened to shut down the game if drastic changes were not made.[94] However, the threat by Roosevelt to eliminate football is disputed by sports historians. The next year in 1901, Yost was hired by Charles A. p. 12.

^ a b Ray Soldan (September 11, 1994). Retrieved 2007-05-31.

^ a b MacCambridge (1999), pp 148

^ Vancil (2000), pp 30

^ Vancil (2000), pp 28-30

^ “A Brief History of the Heisman Trophy”. Tennessee Historical Society. Ralph Turtinen, ed. The highest seed receives automatic home field advantage. While both games benefited from the advent of television, since the late 1950s, the NFL has become a nationally popular sport while college football has maintained strong regional ties.[138][139][140]

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With the growth of bowl games, it became difficult to determine a national champion in a fair and equitable manner. They decided to play with 15 players on each team. From 1901 to 1905, Michigan had a 56-game undefeated streak that included a 1902 trip to play in the first college football bowl game, which later became the Rose Bowl Game. “College Football”. The Anatomy of a Game. Before this meeting, each school had its own set of rules and games were usually played using the home team’s own particular code. ISBN 1-57167-116-1. Retrieved 2009-10-11.

Professional Football Researchers Association. August 22, 1900. The effect was to open up the game and emphasize speed over strength. A football club was formed at the university soon afterward, although its rules of play at this stage are unclear.

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In 1879, the University of Michigan became the first school west of Pennsylvania to establish a college football team. When Heisman left Tech after 1919, his shift was still employed by protege William Alexander.

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1.1 Rugby Football in England and Canada

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1.2.2 Harvard-McGill (1874)

1.2.3 Harvard-Tufts, Harvard-Yale (1875)

1.2.4 Walter Camp: Father of American football

Penn’s Athletic Association was looking to pick “a twenty” to play a game of football against Columbia. In the rankings of the most victorious programs, Michigan, Texas, and Notre Dame are ranked first, second, and third in total wins.

In 1909, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference was founded, featuring four members: Colorado, Colorado College, Colorado School of Mines, and Colorado Agricultural College. NCAA.org. Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. Ivy League Rugby Conference (2009-01-31). 2007. 111, Issue 8

Brian M. (Unlike in the United States, no junior colleges play football in Canada, and the sanctioning body for junior college athletics in Canada, CCAA, does not sanction the sport.) However, amateur football outside of colleges is played in Canada, such as in the Canadian Junior Football League. p. 53.

^ Becky Riddle, “Stoll Field”, ExploreKYHistory, accessed February 4, 2015, http://explorekyhistory.ky.gov/items/show/153.

^ Jim L. The first western team to travel east was the 1881 Michigan team, which played at Harvard, Yale and Princeton.[32][33] The nation’s first college football league, the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives (also known as the Western Conference), a precursor to the Big Ten Conference, was founded in 1895.[34]

Rutgers was first to extend the reach of the game. p. 116.

^ “Princeton-Chicago football game is broadcast across the country”.

^ George Allen. In 1860, both the town police and the college authorities agreed the Bloody Monday had to go. Retrieved 2007-05-16.

^ “Notre Dame Football :: UND.COM :: The Official Site of Notre Dame Athletics”. Football Immortals. Losses to an FBS team count against their playoff eligibility, while wins against a Division II opponent do not count towards playoff consideration. When a game goes to overtime, each team is given one possession from its opponent’s twenty-five yard line with no game clock, despite the one timeout per period and use of play clock. Grantland Rice cited this event as the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports.[112] Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin in Spalding’s Football Guide’s summation of the season in the SIAA wrote “The standing. Retrieved 2007-08-23.

^ “Knute Rockne”. Retrieved 2007-06-01.

^ “Kickoffs from 30 yard line could create more returns, injuries”. These changes greatly reduced the potential for collision injuries.[101] Several coaches emerged who took advantage of these sweeping changes. Nixon, Silver & Gold, December 16, 1898[90]

After the Bowl Championship Series, additional all-star bowl games round out the post-season schedule through the beginning of February.

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November 1890 was an active time in the sport. Princeton, in particular, used scrimmage play to slow the game, making incremental progress towards the end zone during each down. Tar Heel Times. Mcgill.ca. The Division I National Championship game is held in Frisco, Texas.

Events listed in italics have been discontinued.

New formations and play sets continued to be developed. Baylor Athletics (Baylor University). The Oklahoma Football Encyclopedia: 2nd Edition. Augusta Computer Services. Oregon Ducks Football: 100 Years of Glory. A violation will be a 5-yard penalty.

The beginnings of the contemporary Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference start in 1894. In the NFL the clock does not explicitly stop for a first down.

Overtime was introduced in 1996, eliminating ties. Retrieved May 6, 2014.

^ “Seventy-four to nothing”. Later in 1872, Stevens Tech became the fifth school to field a team. One of the participants in the game involving University of Toronto students was (Sir) William Mulock, later Chancellor of the school. Teams can also go for “the two-point conversion” which is when a team will line up at the three-yard line and try to score. Journal of Sport History. Princeton won that game by a score of 8 – 0. On June 4, 1875, Harvard faced Tufts University in the first game between two American colleges played under rules similar to the McGill/Harvard contest, which was won by Tufts.[14] The rules included each side fielding 11 men at any given time, the ball was advanced by kicking or carrying it, and tackles of the ball carrier stopped play.[15]

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See also: List of college football games played outside the United States

1904 saw big coaching hires in the south: Mike Donahue at Auburn, John Heisman at Georgia Tech, and Dan McGugin at Vanderbilt were all hired that year. Beats Throop By a Score of 22 to 12 at Pasadena”. p. 95.

^ Ray Dozier. The Boston Globe.

^ a b c d e f “Camp and His Followers: American Football 1876-1889″ (PDF). “A Look Back at High School Football in 1900s Decade”.

^ Triumph Books.

^ a b “Brown Calls Vanderbilt ’06 Best Eleven South Ever Had”. A player could carry the ball only when being pursued.

Even after the emergence of the professional National Football League (NFL), college football remained extremely popular throughout the Artic North of Spain[1] Although the college game has a much larger margin for talent than its pro counterpart, the sheer number of fans following major colleges provides a financial equalizer for the game, with Division I programs – the highest level – playing in huge stadiums, six of which have seating capacity exceeding 100,000. Sports Publishing LLC. Following the season, Stanford captain John Whittemore wrote to Yale coach Walter Camp asking him to recommend a coach for Stanford.

^ Patrick Dorsey (September 23, 2011). nfl.com. The game featured no uniforms, no positions, and the rules were formulated before the game.[44]

Following the enormous success of the 1958 NFL Championship Game, college football no longer enjoyed the same popularity as the NFL, at least on a national level. lumbia joined the series in 1870, and by 1872 several schools were fielding intercollegiate teams, including Yale and Stevens Institute of Technology.[3]

On April 9, 1880 at Stoll Field, Transylvania University (then called Kentucky University) beat Centre College by the score of 13¾-0 in what is often considered the first recorded game played in the South.[40] The first game of “scientific football” in the South was the first instance of the Victory Bell rivalry between North Carolina and Duke (then known as Trinity College) held on Thanksgiving Day, 1888, at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, North Carolina.[41]

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The following was taken from the Silver & Gold newspaper of December 16, 1898. Wade’s Alabama again won a national championship and Rose Bowl in 1930.

Helping Georgia Tech’s claim to a title in 1917, the Auburn Tigers held undefeated, Chic Harley-led Big Ten champion Ohio State to a scoreless tie the week before Georgia Tech beat the Tigers 68 to 7. For the current season of Bowl Subdivision play, see 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the first time organized football played in the state of Tennessee.[20] The 29th also saw the first instance of the Army-Navy Game. The BCS system was slightly adjusted in 2006, as the NCAA added a fifth game to the series, called the National Championship Game. 18, No. Frank Suffel and Henry H. Watterson, “Inventing Modern Football”, American Heritage magazine, June 1988

^ Vancil (2000), pp 17

^ Vancil (2000) pp 22

^ “NFL History 1911-1920″. Stevens lost to Columbia, but beat both New York University and City College of New York during the following year.

The 1905 season marked the first meeting between Stanford and USC. TheGame.org. “Teddy Roosevelt’s Role in the 1905 Football Controversy”. Princeton University students played a game called “ballown” as early as 1820. Chicago Tribune. The game features prominently in Vanderbilt’s history.[118] That same year, Alabama upset Penn 9 to 7.[119]

On November 23, 1876, representatives from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia met at the Massasoit House in Springfield, Massachusetts to standardize a new code of rules based on the rugby game first introduced to Harvard by McGill University in 1874. NCAA.com. Retrieved October 20, 2011.

^ John C. October 3, 2010.

^ a b c d e f g h i j Park, Roberta J (Winter 1984). The system still did not include the Big Ten, Pac-10, or the Rose Bowl, and thus still lacked the legitimacy of a true national championship.[145][147] However, one positive side effect is that if there were three teams at the end of the season vying for a national title, but one of them was a Pac-10/Big Ten team bound to the Rose Bowl, then there would be no difficulty in deciding which teams to place in the Bowl Alliance “national championship” bowl; if the Pac-10/Big Ten team won the Rose Bowl and finished with the same record as whichever team won the other bowl game, they could have a share of the national title.

^ Gardner (1996)

^ Dupont, Kevin Paul (September 23, 2004). For the video game series, see NCAA Football series. It is still usually regarded as the first game of college football.[3][6][7][8] The game was played at a Rutgers field. There has been serious discussion about making student-athletes university employees to allow them to be paid.[159][160][161][162]

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In 1864, at Trinity College, also a college of the University of Toronto, F. In the NFL, the same foul would result in a penalty on the conversion attempt or ensuing kickoff, at the option of the non-penalized team.

If a team is penalized in the final minute of a half and the penalty causes the clock to stop, the opposing team now has the right to have 10 seconds run off the clock in addition to the yardage penalty. Therefore, college football is generally considered to be the second tier of American football in the United States; one step ahead of high school competition, and one step below professional competition. The Southwest Athletic Conference had been founded in 1915. It was agreed that two games would be played on Harvard’s Jarvis baseball field in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 14 and 15, 1874: one to be played under Harvard rules, another under the stricter rugby regulations of McGill. Retrieved 2007-06-04.

^ “President Eliot on Football.” The School Journal, Volume 70, United Education Company, New York, Chicago, and Boston, February 18, 1905, p.188.

^ Vancil (2000), pp 16-18

^ Bennett (1976), pp 20

^ Lewis, Guy M. Emory Bellard, an assistant coach under Darrell Royal at the University of Texas, developed a three-back option style offense known as the wishbone. College Football Data Warehouse. The high school won 24 to 0.[59]

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As a result of the 1905-1906 reforms, mass formation plays became illegal and forward passes legal. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2012.

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This audio file was created from a revision of the “College football” article dated 2006-05-29, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. 2006-2007 Texas Almanac. McGill football game

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At the Division I FCS level, the teams participate in a 24-team playoff (most recently expanded from 20 teams in 2013) to determine the national championship. Sportswriter Grantland Rice helped popularize the sport with his poetic descriptions of games and colorful nicknames for the game’s biggest players, including Notre Dame’s “Four Horsemen” backfield and Fordham University’s linemen, known as the “Seven Blocks of Granite”.[105]

1904 Vanderbilt team in action.

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Don Hutson in 1940.

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During World War II, college football players enlisted in the armed forces, some playing in Europe during the war. In 1914, the first roughing-the-passer penalty was implemented. “Why California Likes Rugby”. “Yale Yearly Results (1880-1884)”. Retrieved October 11, 2009.

“College Football Rules Changes” (PDF). Dissatisfied with what seemed to him to be a disorganized mob, he proposed his first rule change at the first meeting he attended in 1878: a reduction from fifteen players to eleven. “CHC- Vandy Ties Michigan in 1922″.

^ “Alabama vs. Vincent’s College to a 40-0 victory.[61] In 1893, USC joined the Intercollegiate Football Association of Southern California (the forerunner of the SCIAC), which was composed of USC, Occidental College, Throop Polytechnic Institute (Cal Tech), and Chaffey College. Without the Pac-10/Big Ten team bound to a bowl game, it would be difficult to decide which two teams should play for the national title.

American football historian Parke H. The term “Big Game” was first used in 1900, when it was played on Thanksgiving Day in San Francisco. Archived from the original on April 30, 2007. The only way to score was still to bat or kick the ball through the opposing team’s goal, and the game was played in two 45 minute halves on fields 140 yards long and 70 yards wide. Retrieved 2007-05-31.

^ Vancil (2000), pp 39

^ Vancil (2000), pp 41-45

^ MacCambridge (1999) pp 172

^ MacCambridge (1999), pp 171

^ Bennett (1976) pp 56

^ Barnidge, Tom (2000). The game between West Virginia and Pittsburgh on October 8, 1921, saw the first live radio broadcast of a college football game when Harold W. Football’s Greatest Coaches. Retrieved March 27, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. The U of C should henceforth lead the state and possibly the west in athletic sports.

Charles William Eliot, President of Harvard University (1869-1909) opposing football in 1905.[91]

The BCS selection committee used a complicated, and often controversial, computer system to rank all Division 1-FBS teams and the top two teams at the end of the season played for the National Championship. (1969). Prescott Evening Courier.

^ “Ball Under The Jersey”. Baker beat Kansas 22-9.[19] On the 27th, Vanderbilt played Nashville (Peabody) at Athletic Park and won 40-0. In the NFL, only scoring plays, turnovers, the final 2:00 of each half and all overtime periods are reviewed, and coaches are issued two challenges (with the option for a 3rd if the first two are successful).

Starting in the 2012 season, the ball is placed on the 25-yard line following a touchback on a kickoff. In the Rugby rules of the time, a try only provided the attempt to kick a free goal from the field. While Harvard’s voluntary absence from the meeting made it hard for them to schedule games against other American universities, it agreed to a challenge to play the rugby team of McGill University, from Montreal, in a two-game series. Davis ’93 On Harvard Football”. It also had the first two players from the Deep South selected first-team All-American in Walker Carpenter and Everett Strupper. December 27, 1892. Reeves had a crude leather helmet made by a shoemaker in Annapolis and wore it in the game after being warned by his doctor that he risked death if he continued to play football after suffering an earlier kick to the head.[30]

Although rules for the high school, college, and NFL games are generally consistent, there are several minor differences. At the birth of cable television and cable sports networks like ESPN, there were fifteen bowls in 1980. Retrieved 2012-12-18.

^ “The History of the NCAA”. Retrieved 2008-10-06.

^ a b c Bennett (1976), pp 20-21

^ “ESPN.com: Top N. Also in 1887, two paid officials–a referee and an umpire–were mandated for each game. In 1881, the field was reduced in size to its modern dimensions of 120 by 531/3 yards (109.7 by 48.8 meters). It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. William Dudley, a chemistry professor at Vanderbilt.[45] The original members were Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Sewanee, and Vanderbilt. The term “bowl” originates from the shape of the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California, which was built in 1923 and resembled the Yale Bowl, built in 1915. Retrieved April 4, 2011.

^ DeLassus, David. Kansas Historical Quarterly. Jarvis Field was at the time a patch of land at the northern point of the Harvard campus, bordered by Everett and Jarvis Streets to the north and south, and Oxford Street and Massachusetts Avenue to the east and west. Oregon finished the season with two additional losses and a tie, but went undefeated the following season, winning all four of its games under head coach Percy Benson.[79][80][81] In 1899, the Oregon football team left the state for the first time, playing the California Golden Bears in Berkeley, California.[77]

9 Controversy

10 College football outside the United States

11 Awards

12 See also

13 References

14 Further notes

15 External links

15.1 Statistics

15.2 Rules

15.3 Maps

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Several organizations operate college football programs outside the jurisdiction of the NCAA:

As it grew beyond its regional affiliations in the 1930s, college football garnered increased national attention. The Wolverines: A Story of Michigan Football. Bradbury Robinson, playing for visionary coach Eddie Cochems at Saint Louis University, threw the first legal pass in a September 5, 1906, game against Carroll College at Waukesha. As most of these players had eligibility left on their college careers, some of them returned to college at West Point, bringing Army back-to-back national titles in 1944 and 1945 under coach Red Blaik. Retrieved April 4, 2011.

^ “College Football Games”. Starting in 2013, non-seeded teams can only host a playoff game if both teams involved are unseeded; in such a matchup, the schools must bid for the right to host the game. In the 1950s, Notre Dame, which had a large national following, formed its own network to broadcast its games, but by and large the sport still retained a mostly regional following. The semifinals are hosted by two of a group of six traditional bowl games often called the “New Year’s Six”, with semifinal hosting rotating annually among three pairs of games in the following order: Rose/Sugar, Orange/Cotton, and Fiesta/Peach. Retrieved 2009-10-11.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association. The CFP is a Plus-One system, a concept that became popular as a BCS alternative following controversies in 2003 and 2004. Although before the mid-1920s most national powers came from the Northeast or the Midwest, the trend changed when several teams from the South and the West Coast achieved national success. For other uses, see College football (disambiguation).

“NCAA football” redirects here. Barlow Cumberland and Frederick A. The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889. Rockne is also credited with popularizing and perfecting the forward pass, a seldom used play at the time.[125] The 1924 team featured the Four Horsemen backfield. As a result of this meeting, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States was formed in 1906. Atlanta Constitution. Retrieved 13 October 2011.

^ “Tarheels Credited With Throwing First Forward Pass”. University of Illinois. Tech center Bum Day was the first player on a Southern team ever selected first-team All-American by Walter Camp.

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The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has jurisdiction over more than 80 college football teams, mostly in the midwest.

The National Junior College Athletic Association has jurisdiction over two-year institutions. Sumner (1990). Among his other innovations are modern blocking schemes, the three-point stance, and the reverse play.[121] The youth football league, Pop Warner Little Scholars, was named in his honor.

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“The Invention Of Football”. McGill

The Big Game between Stanford and California is the oldest college football rivalry in the West. “Too many bowl games? Nonsense”. It also became increasingly violent. Retrieved 2007-05-15.

^ Vancil (2000) pp 24

^ “Marching Band History”. Stetson beat Florida Agricultural College at Lake City, one of the four forerunners of the University of Florida, 6-0, in a game played as part of the Jacksonville Fair.[55]

In 1907 at Champaign, Illinois Chicago and Illinois played in the first game to have a halftime show featuring a marching band.[106] Chicago won 42-6. Goddard were playing coaches for the first team which was put together by quarterback Arthur Carroll; who in turn volunteered to make the pants for the team and later became a tailor.[61] USC faced its first collegiate opponent the following year in fall 1889, playing St. Though it was underutilized for years, this proved to be one of the most important rule changes in the establishment of the modern game.[100] Another rule change banned “mass momentum” plays (many of which, like the infamous “flying wedge”, were sometimes literally deadly).

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On September 27, 1902, Georgetown beat Navy 4 to 0. p. 15.

^ “Stanford Defeats Stagg’s Eleven”. Because the college officials could not agree upon a change in rules, it was decided over the course of several subsequent meetings that an external governing body should be responsible. The first intercollegiate game between official varsity teams was played on November 22, 1901. Each school played its own variety of football. Doc Blanchard (known as “Mr. For the 2009 season, there were 34 bowl games, so 68 of the 120 Division I FBS teams were invited to play at a bowl. The 1917 team was the first national champion from the South, led by a powerful backfield. The rules that they agreed upon were essentially those of rugby union at the time with the exception that points be awarded for scoring a try, not just the conversion afterwards (extra point). Sports Publishing LLC.College Football Data Warehouse: Oregon Yearly Results 1894

^ College Football Data Warehouse: Oregon Yearly Results 1894

^ College Football Data Warehouse: Oregon Yearly Results 1895

^ Forgard, Benjamin. Current Events, 00113492, 11/14/2011, Vol. April 15, 2011. The game was taken to Canada by British soldiers stationed there and was soon being played at Canadian colleges.

1895 football game between Auburn and Georgia.

Following the introduction of rugby-style rules to American football, Camp became a fixture at the Massasoit House conventions where rules were debated and changed. Wilkinson and Hayes, along with Robert Neyland of Tennessee, oversaw a revival of the running game in the 1950s. From Maverick to Mainstream: Cumberland School of Law, 1847-1997. Division I generally consists of the major collegiate athletic powers with larger budgets, more elaborate facilities, and (with the exception of a few conferences such as the Pioneer Football League) more athletic scholarships. Rockne returned to coach the team in 1918, and devised the powerful Notre Dame Box offense, based on Warner’s single wing. Stanford: Home of Champions. 1895. The NCAA Football Rules Committee determines the playing rules for Division I (both Bowl and Championship Subdivisions), II, and III games (the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is a separate organization, but uses the NCAA rules).

It was voted that the officers constitute a committee to provide uniform suits in which to play what was called “association football”. Though some coaches, such as General Robert Neyland at Tennessee, continued to eschew its use, several rules changes to the game had a profound effect on teams’ ability to throw the ball. Retrieved March 7, 2015.

^ “The Football Game That Changed the South”. December 30, 1894. (Audio help)

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Modern North American football has its origins in various games, all known as “football”, played at public schools in England in the mid-19th century. He led his team to an impressive 105-12-5 record before his premature death in a plane crash in 1931. March 29, 1916 – via Google books. In the NFL a player is active until he is tackled or forced down by a member of the opposing team (down by contact).

The clock stops after the offense completes a first down and begins again–assuming it is following a play in which the clock would not normally stop–once the referee says the ball is ready for play. For example, the Big Eight and SEC champions could never meet, since they were contractually bound to different bowl games. College Football Data Warehouse. WorldCat.org. The Kingsport Times. The two semifinal winners then advance to the College Football Playoff National Championship, whose host is determined by open bidding several years in advance.

On Thanksgiving Day 1903, a game was scheduled in Montgomery, Alabama between the best teams from each region of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association for an “SIAA championship game”, pitting Cumberland against Heisman’s Clemson. 2006. Rather than increase scoring, which had been Camp’s original intent, the rule was exploited to maintain control of the ball for the entire game, resulting in slow, unexciting contests. John Roberts.

^ Robin Lester (Summer 1991). At the first The Game (as the annual contest between Harvard and Yale came to be named) the future “father of American football” Walter Camp was among the 2000 spectators in attendance. Messrs Carney, Whittaker, Layton and others, who at that time constituted a majority of the male population of the University, called a meeting of the campus boys in the old medical building. Los Angeles Times. The Walter Camp Football Foundation continues to select All-American teams in his honor.[17]

On December 14, 1889, Wofford defeated Furman 5 to 1 in the first intercollegiate game in the state of South Carolina. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

^ a b “The History of Football”. Pomona College was invited to enter, but declined to do so. He is credited with being the first major coach to emphasize offense over defense. The NFL has a similar rule in the final minute of the half, but it applies only to specified violations against the offensive team. Archived from the original on October 31, 2009. The rules committee legalized the forward pass instead. p. 186. What is absolutely certain is that on October 9, 1905, Roosevelt held a meeting of football representatives from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. CUBuffs.com reprint of Silver & Gold article. The two teams agreed to play under a set of rules called the “Concessionary Rules”, which involved Harvard conceding something to Yale’s soccer and Yale conceding a great deal to Harvard’s rugby. November 27, 1941.

^ “Homecoming 2015″. Journal of Sport History, Vol. That game was so lopsided that the game was not played annually until 1916, when the Tournament of Roses decided to reattempt the postseason game. The Walter Camp Foundation. August 17, 1999.

^ Alexander M. In the first two seasons of the CFP, the Group of Five has yet to place a team in a semifinal. This game is commonly referred to as “the game that changed the south.”[120] Wade followed up the next season with an undefeated record and Rose Bowl tie. November 7, 1886. American athletes of the century”. “The Evolution of School Spirit and Tradition at Oregon State University” (PDF). Reading Eagle. Arlin announced that year’s Backyard Brawl played at Forbes Field on KDKA. Retrieved 30 May 2012.

^ “Likes Yost’s Manner: President Jordan of Leland Stanford University Gives His Opinion of the Coach”. 201-209.

^ “Intercollegiate Football: The U.S.C. Though some schools play a run-based version of the spread, its most common use is as a passing offense designed to “spread” the field both horizontally and vertically.[143] Some teams have managed to adapt with the times to keep winning consistently. It was also the first time one team scored over 100 points and the opposing team was shut out.[26] The next week, Princeton outscored Lafayette by 140 to 0.[27]

On 25 December 1894, Amos Alonzo Stagg’s Chicago Maroons agreed to play Camp’s Stanford football team in San Francisco in the first postseason intersectional contest, foreshadowing the modern bowl game.[66][67] Future president Herbert Hoover was Stanford’s student financial manager.[68] Chicago won 24 to 4.[69] Stanford won a rematch in Los Angeles on December 29 by 12 to 0.[70]

– John C. Atlanta, Ga.: Whitman Publishing, LLC. In 1887, game time was set at two halves of 45 minutes each. The man with the ball could be tackled, although hitting, tripping, “hacking” (shin-kicking) and other unnecessary roughness was prohibited. “Princeton Yearly Results (1880-1884)”. This situation continued until 1984, when several schools brought a suit under the Sherman Antitrust Act; the Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA and schools are now free to negotiate their own television deals. November 22, 1893.

^ a b Migdol, Gary (1997). The best collegiate players will typically declare for the professional draft after 3 to 4 years of collegiate competition, with the NFL holding its annual draft every spring. Yale initially refused to join this association because of a disagreement over the number of players to be allowed per team (relenting in 1879) and Rutgers were not invited to the meeting. In 1934, the rules committee removed two major penalties–a loss of five yards for a second incomplete pass in any series of downs and a loss of possession for an incomplete pass in the end zone–and shrunk the circumference of the ball, making it easier to grip and throw. p. 70.

^ Gary Migdol. ESPN.com. The Research Quarterly. “1958 Colts remember the ‘Greatest Game’”. August 2008. 2001. LA 84 Foundation: 54-57. This game’s violence caused such an outcry that no games at all were played in 1871. Louis Post-Dispatch photograph of Brad Robinson, who threw the first legal forward pass and was the sport’s first triple threat

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Meanwhile, John H. In the post-season, if the teams are still tied, teams will play additional overtime periods until either team scores.)

Extra point tries are attempted from the three-yard line. For example, in years when not a part of the national championship, the Rose Bowl still hosted the Big Ten and Pac-10 champions.[147]

The first USC football squad (1888). The undefeated 1904 Vanderbilt team scored an average of 52.7 points per game, the most in college football that season, and allowed just four points.

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The first game where one team scored over 100 points happened on October 25, 1884 when Yale routed Dartmouth 113-0. Los Angeles Herald. Retrieved 2012-10-22.

^ “Parke H. In Baldwin City, Kansas, on November 22, 1890, college football was first played in the state of Kansas. The authorities held firm and it was a dozen years before football was once again played at Harvard. 2007-02-14. Smith. Retrieved 2008-01-16.

^ A compilation of seven sources:

“History.” 2009 Baylor Football Media Almanac. Several times in 1883, Camp tinkered with the scoring rules, finally arriving at four points for a touchdown, two points for kicks after touchdowns, two points for safeties, and five for field goals. 2007. The annual Army-Navy game was suspended from 1894 to 1898 for similar reasons.[92] One of the major problems was the popularity of mass-formations like the flying wedge, in which a large number of offensive players charged as a unit against a similarly arranged defense. In 1995, the Coalition was replaced by the Bowl Alliance, which reduced the number of bowl games to host a national championship game to three–the Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls–and the participating conferences to five–the ACC, SEC, Southwest, Big Eight, and Big East. Amos Alonzo Stagg introduced such innovations as the huddle, the tackling dummy, and the pre-snap shift.[102] Other coaches, such as Pop Warner and Knute Rockne, introduced new strategies that still remain part of the game.

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Star players that emerged in the early 20th century include Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, and Bronko Nagurski; these three made the transition to the fledgling NFL and helped turn it into a successful league. Also, a complex system of human polls, computer rankings, and strength of schedule calculations was instituted to rank schools. ISBN 0-9648244-7-7.

^ a b Libby, Brian. It has its own arrangement for access to the New Year’s Six games should it meet certain standards.

Group of Five – The remaining five FBS conferences – American, C-USA, MAC, MW, and Sun Belt. Paul Hornung, Notre Dame quarterback, did, however, win the Heisman in 1956, becoming the only player from a losing team ever to do so.[136][137]

The 1899 Sewanee Tigers are one of the all-time great teams of the early sport. Retrieved March 24, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. ESPN. The New York Times. Hickok Sports. The team leading after both possessions is declared the winner. “Buff Milestones” (PDF). A rematch was played at Princeton a week later under Princeton’s own set of rules (one notable difference was the awarding of a “free kick” to any player that caught the ball on the fly, which was a feature adopted from the Football Association’s rules; the fair catch kick rule has survived through to modern American game). Playing its first game on November 14 of that year against the Alliance Athletic Club, in which USC gained a 16-0 victory. “Gridiron gridlock: Citing research, Tufts claims football history is on its side”. Retrieved 2007-05-15.

^ a b c “NFL History3039-1910″. Georgia Tech, led by Heisman protege William Alexander, gave the dream and wonder team its only loss, and the next year were national and Rose Bowl champions. Rockne and quarterback Gus Dorais made innovative use of the forward pass, still at that point a relatively unused weapon, to defeat Army 35-13 and helped establish the school as a national power. 2007. Washington and Lee also claims a 4 to 2 win over VMI in 1873.[38]

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The Athletic Association should now invigorate its base-ball and place it at par with its football team; and it certainly has the material with which to do it. Mountain West

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At the Division I FBS level, teams must earn the right to be bowl eligible by winning at least 6 games during the season (teams that play 13 games in a season, which is allowed for Hawaii and any of its home opponents, must win 7 games). Lawrence Journal-World. On 1 January 1902, Yost’s dominating 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team agreed to play a 3-1-2 team from Stanford University in the inaugural “Tournament East-West football game what is now known as the Rose Bowl Game by a score of 49-0 after Stanford captain Ralph Fisher requested to quit with eight minutes remaining.

College athletes, unlike players in the NFL, are not permitted by the NCAA to be paid salaries. being afflicted with a super-abundance of penned up energy, or perhaps having recently drifted from under the parental wing and delighting in their newly found freedom, decided among other wild schemes, to form an athletic association. The notorious V was then in vogue, which gave a heavy team too much advantage. The two-point conversion was not implemented in the NFL until 1994, but it had been previously used in the old American Football League (AFL) before it merged with the NFL in 1970.

The defensive team may score two points on a point-after touchdown attempt by returning a blocked kick, fumble, or interception into the opposition’s end zone. Sports Reference.com. and Pacific Glass Works, fell into the fiery interior of the building when the roof collapsed, resulting in 13 dead and 78 injured.[71][72][73][74][75] On December 4, 1900, the last victim of the disaster (Fred Lilly) died, bringing the death toll to 22; and, to this day, the “Thanksgiving Day Disaster” remains the deadliest accident to kill spectators at a U.S. It was played with a round ball and, like all early games, used a set of rules suggested by Rutgers captain William J. Retrieved 2007-06-01.

^ Celizic, Mike (December 9, 2006). Retrieved 2009-10-11.

Johnson, Greg (2008-08-28). Michigan coach Fielding Yost and Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin were brothers-in-law, and the latter the protege of the former. “John Franklin Crowell, Methodism, and the Football Controversy at Trinity College, 1887-1894″ (PDF). Must Allow Colleges to Pay Athletes, Judge Rules”, New York Times, August 8, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/sports/federal-judge-rules-against-ncaa-in-obannon-case.html

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The Virginia Cavaliers (orange and blue home uniforms) play against the Penn State Nittany Lions (all-white away uniforms) in 2012 in Scott Stadium.

On November 13, 1887 the Virginia Cavaliers and Pantops Academy fought to a scoreless tie in the first organized football game in the state of Virginia.[42] Students at UVA were playing pickup games of the kicking-style of football as early as 1870, and some accounts even claim that some industrious ones organized a game against Washington and Lee College in 1871, just two years after Rutgers and Princeton’s historic first game in 1869. The Panthers, led by freshman Tom Davies, defeated Georgia Tech 32 to 0. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

^ McCann, Michael C. NFL Enterprises LLC. Originally, the snap was executed with the foot of the center. Two teams of 25 players attempted to score by kicking the ball into the opposing team’s goal. The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide. NCAA. The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “the first rugby-football game to be played west of the Alleghenies.”[31] Other Midwestern schools soon followed suit, including the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Minnesota. 2006. This “twenty” never played Columbia, but did play twice against Princeton.[24] Princeton won both games 6 to 0. Warner picked up the trick and later used it at Cornell against Penn State in 1897.[50] He then used it in 1903 at Carlisle against Harvard and garnered national attention.

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College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities. Yale wins 3-0, Tommy Sherman scoring the first goal and Lew Irwin the other two.[22]

In 1891, the first Stanford football team was hastily organized and played a four-game season beginning in January 1892 with no official head coach. April 16, 2007. Before they were nicknamed the “Trojans”, they were known as the USC Methodists.

Colorado’s First football team in 1890.

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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.[29] The Army-Navy game of 1893 saw the first documented use of a football helmet by a player in a game. It was during Rockne’s tenure that the annual Notre Dame-University of Southern California rivalry began. In 2009, Boise State played TCU in the Fiesta Bowl, the first time two schools from non-BCS conferences played each other in a BCS bowl game. The game suffered from disorganization and the players kicked and battled each other as much as the ball. The President’s sons were also playing football at the college and secondary levels at the time.[95]

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Camp’s new scrimmage rules revolutionized the game, though not always as intended. Starting with the 2006 season, a fifth game–simply called the BCS National Championship Game–was added to the schedule, to be played at the site of one of the four BCS bowl games on a rotating basis, one week after the regular bowl game. Throwing or carrying the ball was not allowed, but there was plenty of physical contact between players. MSN Encarta. February 19, 1911. If the teams remain tied, overtime periods continue, with a coin flip determining the first possession. Stanford played its 1915, 1916, and 1917 “Big Games” as rugby union against Santa Clara and California’s football “Big Game” in those years was against Washington, but both schools desired to restore the old traditions.[87] The onset of American involvement in World War I gave Stanford an out: in 1918, the Stanford campus was designated as the Students’ Army Training Corps headquarters for all of California, Nevada, and Utah, and the commanding officer, Sam M. (In the NFL overtime is decided by a 15-minute sudden-death quarter, and regular season games can still end in a tie if neither team scores. It took place at Hamilton Park in New Haven and was the first game in New England. Although the NCAA publishes lists of claimed FBS-level national champions in its official publications, it has never recognized an official FBS national championship; this policy continues even after the establishment of the College Football Playoff (which is not directly run by the NCAA) in 2014. Georgia’s 1927 “dream and wonder team” defeated Yale for the first time.

^ “Ten Yard Rule a Failure” New York Times, December 26, 1905

^ “New Football Rules Tested” Los Angeles Times, December 26, 1905

^ a b “University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries”. In 1921 Bo McMillin-led Centre upset defending national champion Harvard 6 to 0 in what is widely considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history. A Harvard tradition known as “Bloody Monday” began in 1827, which consisted of a mass ballgame between the freshman and sophomore classes. FOX Sports on MSN. Retrieved 2008-04-06.

^ Vancil (2000), pp 19-22

^ Vancil (2000), pp 24-29

^ a b c MacCambridge (1999), pp 124

^ “A Look Back at the Southwest Conference”. These deaths could be attributed to the mass formations and gang tackling that characterized the sport in its early years.

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Glenn “Pop” Warner coached at several schools throughout his career, including the University of Georgia, Cornell University, University of Pittsburgh, Stanford University, and Temple University.[121] One of his most famous stints was at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, where he coached Jim Thorpe, who went on to become the first president of the National Football League, an Olympic Gold Medalist, and is widely considered one of the best overall athletes in history.[122][123] Warner wrote one of the first important books of football strategy, Football for Coaches and Players, published in 1927.[124] Though the shift was invented by Stagg, Warner’s single wing and double wing formations greatly improved upon it; for almost 40 years, these were among the most important formations in football. This allows them to seat more fans in a given amount of space than the typical professional stadium, which tends to have more features and comforts for fans. College Football Historical Society. The Strode Publishers. p. 3.

^ “Grantland Rice Tells Of Greatest Thrill In Years Of Watching Sport”. Other important changes, formally adopted in 1910, were the requirements that at least seven offensive players be on the line of scrimmage at the time of the snap, that there be no pushing or pulling, and that interlocking interference (arms linked or hands on belts and uniforms) was not allowed. Princeton won 21-18 in a hotly contested game which had Princeton dubbed the “Team of Destiny.”[110]

^ Evans, Harold (August 1940). Outing. Retrieved 2007-03-21. College Football Encyclopedia. Known as the “Iron Men”, with just 13 men they had a six-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M; Texas; Tulane; LSU; and Ole Miss. Due to scantness of records of the prior matches some will claim Virginia v. Some coaches and officials questioned this rule change as it could lead to more injuries to the players as there will likely be more kickoff returns.[148] The rationale for the rule change was to help reduce dead time in the game.[149] The NFL returned its kickoff location to the 35-yard line effective in 2011; college football did not do so until 2012.

Several changes were made to college rules in 2011, all of which differ from NFL practice:[150]If a player is penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct for actions that occurred during a play ending in a touchdown by that team, but before the goal line was crossed, the touchdown will be nullified. 40: 717-724. Boston Daily Globe. p. 179.

^ a b Mal Florence et al., The Trojan Heritage, 2004 USC Football Media Guide, USC Athletic Department, pp. “Yale’s Walter Camp and 1870s Rugby.” The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889. Retrieved 2009-02-18.

^ Nelson (1994), pp 48

^ “Big Ten History”. Honus Craig then ran in the winning touchdown.

The rules committee considered widening the playing field to “open up” the game, but Harvard Stadium (the first large permanent football stadium) had recently been built at great expense; it would be rendered useless by a wider field. p. 4.

^ “USC Football Heads To Bay Area To Face No. Rutgers Through The Years. However, after a few years, the school began to feel the isolation of its newly adopted sport, which was not spreading as many had hoped. p. 15 – via Google books. pp. 285-311. Another rule, unique to McGill, was to count tries (the act of grounding the football past the opposing team’s goal line; it is important to note that there was no end zone during this time), as well as goals, in the scoring. The team went 12-0, outscoring opponents 322 to 10. ABC Sports began broadcasting a national Game of the Week in 1966, bringing key matchups and rivalries to a national audience for the first time.[141]

After the first game against Harvard, Tufts took its squad to Bates College in Lewiston, Maine for the first football game played in Maine.[23] This occurred on November 6, 1875.

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The University of Oregon began playing American football in 1894 and played its first game on March 24, 1894, defeating Albany College 44-3 under head coach Cal Young.[77][78][79] Cal Young left after that first game and J.A. 1991 Pitt Football: University of Pittsburgh Football Media Guide. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

^ “Florida Power:The Early Years”. Every play is subject to booth review with coaches only having one challenge. Modern Canadian football is widely regarded as having originated with a game played in Montreal, in 1865, when British Army officers played local civilians. University of Virginia Football Vault. Retrieved 2007-05-31.

^ Ours, Robert M.

^ “Football Squads Begin practice”. Based on this ranking system, the No.1 and No.2 teams met each year in the national championship game. p. 52. The coalition also excluded the Rose Bowl, arguably the most prestigious game in the nation, and two major conferences–the Pac-10 and Big Ten–meaning that it had limited success. Retrieved September 11, 2012.

^ John Majors. Deseret News. Athens, Georgia: E. “Michigan-Chicago 1905: The First Greatest Game of the Century” (PDF). British Columbia Rugby Union. This arrangement is contractually locked in until the 2026 season.

On October 18, 1888, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels 6 to 4 in the first intercollegiate game in the state of North Carolina.[43]

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After leaving Yale in 1882, Camp was employed by the New Haven Clock Company until his death in 1925. Spectators from Princeton also carried the game back home, where it quickly became the most popular version of football.[3]

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College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS – Overview of systems for determining national champions at the highest level of college football from 1869 to present.

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Vanderbilt’s line coach then was Wallace Wade, who in 1925 coached Alabama to the south’s first Rose Bowl victory. The IAAUS would get its current name of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 1910,[98] which still sets rules governing the sport.[98][99]

The first intercollegiate game in the state of Vermont happened on November 6, 1886 between Dartmouth and Vermont at Burlington, Vermont. “Two-point conversion turns 50.” The NCAA News. OSU Alumni Association. NFL.com. At the 1882 rules meeting, Camp proposed that a team be required to advance the ball a minimum of five yards within three downs. The American retained the Big East’s automatic BCS bowl bid for the 2013 season, but lost this status in the CFP era.

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Power Five – Five of the six AQ conferences of the BCS era, specifically the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC. Bethune devised rules based on rugby football. He also lacked the authority to abolish football and was, in fact, actually a fan of the sport and wanted to preserve it. heisman.com. “Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics”, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988

^ Infamous 1874 McGill-Harvard game turns 132 at McGill Athletics, published by McGill University (no further authorship information available). Retrieved April 6, 2011.

^ “The History of Homecoming”. “The Birth of OSU Football”. This opened up the BCS to two additional at-large teams. 16: 583. Dartmouth won 91 to 0.[28]

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Main article: 1874 Harvard vs. USC Trojans. “Old Division Football, The Indigenous Mob Soccer Of Dartmouth College (pdf)” (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association: 71-75.

^ Davis, Parke H. Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball: Through the 1890/91 Season. Passing numbers dropped from an average of 18.9 attempts in 1951 to 13.6 attempts in 1955, while teams averaged just shy of 50 running plays per game. The try would later evolve into the score known as the touchdown. colleges or universities – Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium at the University of Louisville and FAU Stadium at Florida Atlantic University – consist entirely of chairback seating.)

College teams mostly play other similarly sized schools through the NCAA’s divisional system. 2007. At-large teams could be chosen from any of the Division I conferences, though only one selection–Utah in 2005–came from a non-BCS affiliated conference. Nelson. Heisman Trophy. Retrieved December 27, 2011.

^ Sciullo Jr, Sam, ed. By 1950, three more had joined that number and in 1970, there were still only eight major college bowl games. pp. 11-13. The game was won by Tufts 1-0[9] Harvard beat McGill in the “Boston Game” on the Thursday and held McGill to a 0-0 tie on the Friday. “Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Foot Ball”. There was no limit to the number of players, but there were typically ten to fifteen per side. Retrieved January 14, 2013.

^ Alan Gould (January 24, 1931). If they are successful, they receive two points, if they are not, then they receive zero points. Colleges are only allowed to provide non-monetary compensation such as athletic scholarships that provide for tuition, housing, and books.[2]

Walter Camp is widely considered to be the most important figure in the development of American football.[6][7][16] As a youth, he excelled in sports like track, baseball, and association football, and after enrolling at Yale in 1876, he earned varsity honors in every sport the school offered.[16]

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Utilizing the “jump shift” offense, John Heisman’s Georgia Tech Golden Tornado won 222 to 0 over Cumberland on October 7, 1916, at Grant Field in the most lopsided victory in college football history.[114] Tech went on a 33-game winning streak during this period. Retrieved 2007-08-17.

^ “Series of rules changes approved”. Retrieved March 13, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. p. 14.

^ Southern Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association (PDF). Its result was “a great surprise to the sporting world.”[117] Commodore fans celebrated by throwing some 3,000 seat cushions onto the field. Instead, it has a series of postseason “bowl games”. Big Ten Conference – Official Athletic Site – Traditions. May 8, 1900. It was agreed that the No.1 and No.2 ranked teams gave up their prior bowl tie-ins and were guaranteed to meet in the national championship game, which rotated between the three participating bowls. Though he lectured on eliminating and reducing injuries, he never threatened to ban football. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

^ “100 years ago: Football fans enjoy mechanized reproduction of KU-MU game”. Several major rivalries date from this time period.

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Camp was central to several more significant rule changes that came to define American football. Wallace William Wade’s 1925 Alabama team won the 1926 Rose Bowl after receiving its first national title and William Alexander’s 1928 Georgia Tech team defeated California in the 1929 Rose Bowl. December 18, 1930. 2012-05-14. When Army scheduled Notre Dame as a warm-up game, they thought little of the small school. The mass plays being now barred, skill on the football field is more in demand than mere weight and strength.

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An 1894 football game in Staunton, Virginia between VMI and Virginia Tech.

Brown enters the intercollegiate game in 1878.[25]

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The first documented gridiron football match was a game played at University College, a college of the University of Toronto, November 9, 1861. Kirwan, chancellor of the University of Maryland System and co-director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, “We’ve reached a point where big-time intercollegiate athletics is undermining the integrity of our institutions, diverting presidents and institutions from their main purpose.”[156] Football coaches often make more than the presidents of their universities which employ them.[157] Athletes are alleged to receive preferential treatment both in academics and when they run afoul of the law.[158] Although in theory football is an extra-curricular activity engaged in as a sideline by students, it generates a substantial profit, from which the athletes receive no direct benefit. Committee Urges Football Playoff”. 2.

^ a b “A History of Washington and Lee Athletics”. For the first time, it included all major conferences (ACC, Big East, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-10, and SEC) and four major bowl games (Rose, Orange, Sugar and Fiesta). Associated Press. In the NFL both feet must be inbounds.

A player is considered down when any part of his body other than the feet or hands touches the ground or when the ball carrier is tackled or otherwise falls and loses possession of the ball as he contacts the ground with any part of his body, with the sole exception of the holder for field goal and extra point attempts. Four new bowl games were created: the Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, the Sun Bowl in 1935, and the Cotton Bowl in 1937. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

^ “History of the Football Helmet” from Past Time Sports. As part of his single and double wing formations, Warner was one of the first coaches to effectively utilize the forward pass. Baird as the head football coach for the Michigan Wolverines football team. Archived from the original on September 15, 2007. Retrieved June 11, 2011.

^ “NCAA Division I Football Championship”. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. The Big East split into two leagues in 2013; the schools that did not play FBS football reorganized as a new non-football Big East Conference, while the FBS member schools that remained in the original structure joined with several new members and became the American Athletic Conference. Rutgers University. Journal of Sport History. In 1952, the NCAA claimed all television broadcasting rights for the games of its member institutions, and it alone negotiated television rights. Each year, one of the four bowl games served as a national championship game. Each champion of these conferences is assured of a spot in a New Year’s Six bowl, though not necessarily in a semifinal game. Heisman pressed hardest for Cumberland to get the claim of champion. 2007. Lawrence Daily Journal. p. 5.

^ A Ghastly Holocaust: Football Spectators Plunged into Molten Glass, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Friday 11 January 1901), p.6.

^ Twenty Score Persons Make Awful Plunge: Seventeen People Meet Most Awful Death: Two San Jose Men Die Amid Sizzling Shrieking Human Mass in Collapsed Factory at Big Game, The (San Jose) Evening News, (Friday 30 November 1900), p.1, p.5.

^ Through a Roof to Death, The (Crawfordsville) Daily News-Review, (Friday, 30 November 1900), p.2.

^ Spectators Fell Into Molten Glass: Thirteen Dead, One Hundred Injured by Collapse of a Roof Overlooking the Stanford-Berkeley Game at San Francisco, The (Spokane) Spokesman-Review, (Friday 30 November 1900), p.1.

^ Death Reaps a Dread Harvest of Lives and Plunges City into Gloom, The San Francisco Call, (Friday, 30 November 1900), p.2.

^ Eskanazi, J., “Sudden Death: Boys Fell to Their Doom in S.F.’s Forgotten Disaster” San Francisco Weekly News, 15 August 2012

^ a b “Timeline”. The History of Sports. The inaugural champion was Ohio State University.[152] The College Football Playoff replaced the Bowl Championship Series, which had been used as the selection method to determine the national championship game participants since in the 1998 season.

1.7 From a regional to a national sport (1930-1958)

1.8 Modern college football (since 1958)

1.8.1 Growth of bowl games

1.8.2 Bowl Championship Series

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1917 saw the rise of another Southern team in Centre of Danville, Kentucky. College football quickly became the most popular spectator sport in the South.[127]

University of Wisconsin football team, 1903

Started in the 2014 season, four Division I FBS teams are selected at the end of regular season to compete in a playoff for the FBS national championship. Teams had been scaled down from 25 players to 20. (Only two stadiums owned by U.S. Pop Warner’s Pittsburgh Panthers were also undefeated, but declined a challenge by Heisman to a game. p. 64.

^ “Spotlight Athletics:”. Echoes of Oklahoma Sooners Football: The Greatest Stories Ever Told. At all other levels of football, plus all other touchback situations under NCAA rules, the ball is placed on the 20.

Among other rule changes in 2007, kickoffs were moved from the 35-yard line back five yards to the 30-yard line, matching a change that the NFL had made in 1994. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Sports Information Office. On November 25, 1911 Kansas and Missouri played the first homecoming football game.[107] The game was “broadcast” play-by-play over telegraph to at least 1,000 fans in Lawrence, Kansas.[108] It ended in a 3-3 tie. At this meeting, a list of rules, based more on the Football Association’s rules than the rules of the recently founded Rugby Football Union, was drawn up for intercollegiate football games.[3]

Knute Rockne rose to prominence in 1913 as an end for the University of Notre Dame, then a largely unknown Midwestern Catholic school. The number grew to eleven in 1976. The trophy was designed by sculptor Frank Eliscu and modeled after New York University player Ed Smith. This article incorporates text from the McGill University Gazette (April 1874), two issues of The Montreal Gazette (14 May and 19 May 1874). The series included the four most prominent bowl games (Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl), while the National Championship game rotated each year between one of these venues. All of these games, and others, shared certain commonalities. This computer system, which factored in newspaper polls, online polls, coaches’ polls, strength of schedule, and various other factors of a team’s season, led to much dispute over whether the two best teams in the country were being selected to play in the National Championship Game.

Walter Camp, the “Father of American Football”, pictured here in 1878 as the captain of the Yale Football team

Besides these coaching innovations, several rules changes during the first third of the 20th century had a profound impact on the game, mostly in opening up the passing game. During that game, a large group of men and boys, who were observing from the roof of the nearby S.F. 100 Years of Golden Gopher Football. By next season, Oklahoma coach John A. p. 128.

^ Langum, David J. Schaff himself was injured and unable to the play the game, but Yale won the game 3-0 nonetheless. “N.C.A.A. Since there was no national championship game, the final version of the AP poll was used to determine who was crowned the National Champion of college football.[132]

Harvard vs. Retrieved 2007-05-19.

^ Vancil (2000), pp 16

^ Men’s Intercollegiate Athletic Department of the University of Minnesota (1981). Retrieved 2016-01-24.

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In 1906, citing concerns about the violence in American Football, universities on the West Coast, led by California and Stanford, replaced the sport with rugby union.[87] At the time, the future of American football was very much in doubt and these schools believed that rugby union would eventually be adopted nationwide.[87] Other schools fllowed suit and also made the switch included Nevada, St. This college rule was added in 1988. It was his last game as Clemson head coach.[57]

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Kickoff during the 1916 Colorado – Utah game

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Main article: 1869 college football season

This system has been challenged often, beginning with an NCAA committee proposal in 1979 to have a four-team playoff following the bowl games.[153] However, little headway was made in instituting a playoff tournament until 2014, given the entrenched vested economic interests in the various bowls. p. 3. Retrieved March 24, 2015.

^ “Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History”.

^ “Penn Football:Origins To 1901″.

^ Mark F.

^ “Mansfield, Pennsylvania – It happened one night – First Football under lights – Mansfield PA 1892″. The University of Alabama. Rutgers won by a score of six to four. Football came back in 1872, when Columbia played Yale for the first time. The annual National Champion in the Football Bowl Subdivision is then instead traditionally determined by a vote of sports writers and other non-players.

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One publication claims “The first scouting done in the South was in 1905, when Dan McGugin and Captain Innis Brown, of Vanderbilt went to Atlanta to see Sewanee play Georgia Tech.”[111]Fuzzy Woodruff claims Davidson was the first in the south to throw a legal forward pass in 1906. Leggett, based on the Football Association’s first set of rules, which were an early attempt by the former pupils of England’s public schools, to unify the rules of their public schools games and create a universal and standardized set of rules for the game of football and bore little resemblance to the American game which would be developed in the following decades. A selection committee of college football experts decides the participating teams. Clemson, Cumberland, Kentucky, LSU, Mercer, Mississippi, Mississippi A&M (Mississippi State), Southwestern Presbyterian University, Tennessee, Texas, Tulane, and the University of Nashville joined the following year in 1895 as invited charter members.[46] The conference was originally formed for “the development and purification of college athletics throughout the South”.[47]

In May 1900, Yost was hired as the football coach at Stanford University,[84] and, after traveling home to West Virginia, he arrived in Palo Alto, California, on August 21, 1900.[85] Yost led the 1900 Stanford team to a 7-2-1, outscoring opponents 154 to 20. On October 20, 1873, representatives from Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Rutgers met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City to codify the first set of intercollegiate football rules. Nine out of ten Heisman Trophy winners in the 1950s were runners. Saperecom. Professional Football Researchers Association. Selection for the playoffs is determined by a selection committee, although usually a team must have a 7-4 record to even be considered. Weyand (1962). As a result, the official Division I National Champion is the winner of the Football Championship Subdivision, as it is the highest level of football with an NCAA-administered championship tournament.

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As a result of this, Harvard refused to attend the rules conference organized by Rutgers, Princeton and Columbia at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City on October 20, 1873 to agree on a set of rules and regulations that would allow them to play a form of football that was essentially Association football; and continued to play under its own code. Rules were simple, violence and injury were common.[3][4] The violence of these mob-style games led to widespread protests and a decision to abandon them. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

^ “FBS College Football History”. Its primary restriction is that all players must weigh less than the average college student (that threshold is set, as of 2015, at 172 pounds/78 kg).

American football at Oregon State University started in 1893 shortly after athletics were initially authorized at the college. By the 1840s, students at Rugby School were playing a game in which players were able to pick up the ball and run with it, a sport later known as Rugby football. A year later, the rules were changed to allow tackling below the waist, and in 1889, the officials were given whistles and stopwatches.[16]

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1906 St. 256 players are selected annually. Davis described the period between 1869 and 1875 as the ‘Pioneer Period’; the years 1876-93 he called the ‘Period of the American Intercollegiate Football Association’; and the years 1894-1933 he dubbed the ‘Period of Rules Committees and Conferences’.[5]

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1.5 Violence, formation of NCAA

1.6 Modernization and innovation (1906-1930)

1.6.1 Rise of the South

1.6.1.1 Heisman shift

1.6.1.2 Notable intersectional games

Unlike other college football divisions and most other sports–collegiate or professional–the Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A college football, has historically not employed a playoff system to determine a champion. With more national venues and increased available revenue, the bowls saw an explosive growth throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The game featured the season’s two best defenses and included a goal line stand by Vanderbilt to preserve the tie. Retrieved 2010-01-26.

^ “The History of Walter Camp”. 17 (1).

^ Ratcliffe, Jerry (2008). Camp’s most famous change, the establishment of the line of scrimmage and the snap from center to quarterback, was also passed in 1880. Colorado found much success in its early years, winning eight Colorado Football Association Championships (1894-97, 1901-08).

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Main articles: Bowl game and List of college bowl games

The situation came to a head in 1905 when there were 19 fatalities nationwide. Football, the American intercollegiate game. Stone. Retrieved April 12, 2011.

^ “Timeline of Yale Football”. Also, rules were changed to add the champions of five additional conferences (Conference USA [C-USA], the Mid-American Conference [MAC], the Mountain West Conference [MW], the Sun Belt Conference and the Western Athletic Conference [WAC]), provided that said champion ranked in the top twelve in the final BCS rankings, or was within the top 16 of the BCS rankings and ranked higher than the champion of at least one of the “BCS conferences” (also known as “AQ” conferences, for Automatic Qualifying).[147] Several times since this rule change was implemented, schools from non-AQ conferences have played in BCS bowl games. They remained largely “mob” style games, with huge numbers of players attempting to advance the ball into a goal area, often by any means necessary. The game ended in an 11-11 tie causing many teams to claim the title. “Vandy’s Great Victory Will Live In History”. One conference champion from this group receives a spot in a New Year’s Six game. Outland held an experimental game in Wichita, Kansas that reduced the number of scrimmage plays to earn a first down from four to three in an attempt to reduce injuries.[96] The Los Angeles Times reported an increase in punts and considered the game much safer than regular play but that the new rule was not “conducive to the sport”.[97] In 1906, President Roosevelt organized a meeting among thirteen school leaders at the White House to find solutions to make the sport safer for the athletes. “Southeastern Conference”. Web.ebscohost.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2007-05-16.

^ Smith, R.A. p. 5. It was the first game in the south decided by a field goal.[49] Heisman later used the trick against Pop Warner’s Georgia team. Retrieved 2012-12-18.

^ a b c d e f g “No Christian End!” (PDF). The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. pp. A3.

^ Alex Lynn (November 25, 1906). p. 232.

^ David M. MSNBC. In 1936, the Associated Press began its weekly poll of prominent sports writers, ranking all of the nation’s college football teams. p. 8. NFL.com. Archived from the original on June 24, 2007. In 1992, seven conferences and independent Notre Dame formed the Bowl Coalition, which attempted to arrange an annual No.1 versus No.2 matchup based on the final AP poll standings. Suits of flannel were ultimately procured and paid for assessments on the members of the association and generous contributions from members of the faculty.

November 30, 1905, saw Chicago defeat Michigan 2 to 0. p. 4.

^ “Stanford’s Football Coach Has Arrived”. Pantops Academy November 13, 1887 as the first game in Virginia.

The style of football playing has altered considerably; by the old rules, all men in front of the runner with the ball, were offside, consequently we could not send backs through and break the line ahead of the ball as is done at present