KIN 2501 Study Guide - Final Guide: Adolph Rupp, Baby Steps, Female Seminary

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Sport at the college level: intercollegiate contests, variety of sports, student initiated, violence, 1895 beginning of the ncaa, rowing: was 1st intercollegiate, football: a game for college men. Teams were clubs and not sponsored by colleges. 1st ever football game: princeton vs. rutgers (1869) More like soccer/rugby than today"s fb first intercollegiate sport was rowing: harvard vs. yale. Football played much like soccer: played 25 vs. 25, had different scoring mechanisms. Handful of colleges in new england that played the game. Large teams, emphasis on kicking: very rough. Private colleges in new england and two men change the game. Changed it to carrying the ball got 2 points. Kicking it through the goal posts got 5 points. Walter camp (father of american football)- camp=fat like a football. Yards and downs: had 3 tries to move the ball 5 yards or you lost possession, now it is 4 tries to move 10 yards.

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