The term Super Bowl name came to Lamar Hunt while watching the Rose Bowl and his kid playing with a Super Ball, which were little rubber balls that bounced aggressively high and far.
The forward pass was legalized in 1906. An incomplete pass resulted in a turnover, so quite a penalty. This led eventually to changing the shape of the ball from a rugby ball to something that could be thrown as a spiral.
This is a great one "College Football 150 - The American Game - Evolution of the Game" by CFB Archive. It's 47 minutes and you might want to split it into 2 parts.
All the college conference champions, back in the day, went to a post-season “bowl” game as a reward for an accomplished season; i.e. The Rose Bowl, The Cotton Bowl, The Sugar Bowl, etc. The professional league coined the name “Super Bowl” as a spin-off of these games.
@@robertdedrick7937 That's because bowl games are money generators, not for the Universites or football teams, they usually make very little or lose money. No, bowl games make tons of money for the corporate entities that sponsor them. They all wanted their piece of the pie so they forced the NCAA to turn into Opra.
The Forward Pass - which was opposed by Walter Camp - was one of the rules modifications instituted by Teddy Roosevelt, and thus was part of the game starting in 1906.
The other big one was elimination of wedge plays, where the line would push one or two players forward through the defense. That alone was responsible for most of the serious injuries and deaths as it was very easy to trap your ball carrier between several advancing players on each side and squash the poor guy like a grape. Remember, no pads or helmets at the time. It's a century old change that is still seeing review, thanks to the resurgence and discussion of the push sneak that the Eagles brought back with their 'tush push'. The NFL hadn't let off on the push rules until 2005 and it took this long for a team to start taking advantage again, and the same problems from 1906 still apply...
The Ivy League is the name of the conference that a lot of very old and even more expensive private schools play in. Yes, it is aptly named, and the term was colloquially used for those schools, before there was an official conference of that name.
Biggest single point of departure was that by about 1880, interference (blocking) was legal which resulted in a large increase in violence (including fatalities). The forward pass came in as one possible solution to this violence. Pro football mostly grew out of factory teams (and the odd athletic club) if you were to draw a wide line from Pittsburgh to Minneapolis, you would cover most of the early pro teams. College was much more regional, with only a few teams doing much traveling out of their region. One notable exception was when Notre Dame (from a bit east of Chicago) came East to play West Point (the US army Military Academy) in upstate New York in 1913 and showed that their Midwest-style Passing attack (learned from University of Chicago and St Louis University) was a LOT more advanced than anything on the East Coast. Notre Dame won 35-10 and passed AND ran all over the Cadets. Future General/President Dwight Eisenhower watched from the bench, he'd been injured earlier in the season almost but not quite seriously enough to scupper his Army career. Their are some notes from the 1869 Rudgers/Princeton game indicating that hand-passing and bounce-dribbling were permitted (but running with the ball was NOT). So whichever codes they were drawing probably included some of the ones that had lead to Australian Rules and Gaelic. The one rule that seems to be "common" to all the codes that allowed catching the ball was the "mark" rule. Which survives in most modern codes in one form or another.
American Football NFL professional football College has FBS Div 1 FCS Div 1 Div 2 Div 3 NJCCA Junior College NAIA AFL - Arena Football As you can see there are many varied football played here. There even more than listed, but check out an Arena game. Its unique.
The forward pass was made legal in 1906, as part of the safety measures mentioned by @theblackbear211. Helmet development, btw, began in the 1890s; widely used by the 1920s but not mandated in the NFL until after WWII.
Gridiron Football essentially takes Rugby Football's niche in both American and Canadian sports. Forward Pass was in 1906. 1906 also raised the down and distance requirements from 5 yards in 3 downs to 10 yards in 3 downs. Americans added 4th Down in 1912, Canadians never added 4th down.
Just FYI - though Walter Camp may have tried to make the Game "less brutal" in the 1880's - President "Teddy" Roosevelt - who was no "shrinking violet" himself, almost banned College Football in 1905 because of the number of deaths occurring during games. 19 -25 were killed (depending on whose numbers you credit) in 1905 alone! He insisted on rules changes, thus was credited by some, with "saving football".
If I'm not mistaken, Camp continued to be heavily involved in the early 1900s and thus had a lot to do with the changes made in response to Roosevelt's call.
@@TheMJfromTN He was indeed, but from what I've read, he was opposed to the forward pass - which Roosevelt successfully pushed for through his influence with the other rules makers.
American football has a similarity to a bastard child of Chess and Dominos (not the game of dominos but setting them up and triggering a result) Where the formations are the Chess gambits and then like Dominos, all the pieces try to fall where they are supposed to. The trick is both sides have their own formations and a Coach much choose which to use. Strategy, with athletic execution.
The forward pass is definitely the biggest rule change from Rugby that created American Football as we know it, with line of scrimmage/downs being nearly as important. Over the century, this created the strategy heavy game we have today that has the greatest variety in player positions of any sport that I know of.
The Big 10 is the oldest conference in the highest level of college football; the channel “dalukes” did an INCREDIBLE video about the history of the Big 10 (he's done histories of most of the other conferences, too).
I see several saying when the forward pass came into being. The was a college player (Cetchums I believe) that was the earliest strategist of the forward pass a few years later. Then the ones that really brought it into the game Davey O'Brien thru Y. A. Tittle. Then you get into the modern football era. The first to throw a legal forward pass I think was named Robinson. I used to know all this many years ago.
This vid focuses more a history of professional football, but a lot of the development was going on in college football for a very long time because it started there. The forward pass wasn't popular for a long time until they really started pushing it more like around 1915 by making it more profitable nd less if a risk, to use it to open the game up because for a solid several decades since about the 1890s the reason players were dying was because they were doing these "mass plays", where they would sort of all link up together and run over a person as a group. There were also some rules about how you could basically continue to crawl under a mass of men to make more yards, and so they would stop the person crawling forward by leaping on him knees first and crushing him to the ground. You could also pick up the ball carrier literally carry him or throw him forward to advance the ball, essentially making him part of the ball; so all of these rules were changed to lower the annual death toll, and some schools like the ones on the West Coast banned football & went back to rugby because it was safer, which kind of says a lot about how the game had developed differently to the point where rugby was considered "the safe option". A lot of those schools didn't go back to playing the evolving game of football with everybody else until quite a few years later, after enough of changes took effect to make it safe enough to be worth it to them. That change took a while because a lot of the old guard thought they were turning it into a "namby pamby" little sport for effeminate men, because people weren't risking their lives to play it I guess? But it also says a lot about how brutal life was for young men back then that it was considered a proper training around for a young man to face his future life if he were to risk his life for honor and glory on the field like that, to the point that people were literally worried about the state of masculine ideals and all of that if they were to make the game safer. So of course a lot of the resistance to taking away the mass plays and instituting the forward pass as a useful endeavor was because it would make the game safer, ie apparently basically a wussy game. You still hear those same arguments today every time they make a change in the rules to make the game safer. The older generation complains that the younger generation doesn't know how to risk their lives properly in the name of honor and brotherhood. All of that, "You guys couldn't handle our game when we played without pads and rung each other's bells and knocked each other out constantly " etcetera etcetera. Hard to imagine how many people had died of CTE and related stuff back in the arly years! The last big change was making the forward pass more useful, as a way to open the game up so that the mass plays that had pretty much been mandated away were turned into a useless method, and it became more of a faster and more running-related game as opposed to a sort of smashing into each other over and over again sort of thing. They used nose guards at the time that kind of also doubled as mouthguards, and didn't use helmets for a very long time because they actually believed that having a thick head of hair was better at protecting your head, and they thought that you were basically a pansy if you wore the leather helmet that was really more of an ear guard, kind of like the thin ones that are worn in rugby sometimes. They actually had a thing called "football hair" that was popular because most of the young men would have had crew cuts at the time, and so if you had "football hair" (which would mean hair that is rather long by that those standards back then but still fairly short by ours), you were getting all the girls Etc, so it became a fashion trend. The nose guards were ridiculous looking and probably a lot of people didn't wear them because they would really obstruct your breathing because back then the game was a lot more like rugby, and so you were going full tilt the whole time without the strategic pauses that are in there now. They didn't even have that neutral zone in between the two lines, and so people were just slamming into each other and punching each other in the face and all sorts of things. A lot of this history is very interesting and intricate and can be found on this guy's channel: Hardcore College Football History, if you're interested in learning more about a lot of this. He has about a six-part documentary series on the history of the development of the game.
I get why a longer video would be too much but there's some awesome longer videos that cover forward pass and the history of specialized positions. Even the goal posts
4:35 Latrobe and Jeannette are both small suburban cities east of Pittsburgh. I'm quite proud to be from the area professional football got it's start. Hey, maybe that's part of the reason all us Yinzers are so crazy about football, it's in our blood!
The forward pass was introduced in 1906, but it didn’t become more highly used until the ball was redesigned a decade later. The rounder rugby ball gave way to the pointier American football. With this redesign the kicking game became diminished.
Fun Detail - the 2 oldest teams in the NFL are the Green Bay Packers (1919) and the Chicago Bears (1920) - who are arch-rivals, though at different times in their history either team has helped the other to stay in business.
The reason you haven't seen Princeton in the football stadiums vids is because you haven't gotten to the Ivy Leagues yet. Those are the really prestigious schools, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Penn, Dartmouth and Cornell. Great schools, but not great football anymore.
The game they claimed was the first between Rutgers and Princeton shouldn't really be claimed as the first game of american football, as they were not allowed to pick up or carry the ball (sound more like soccer doesn't it?) 5 years after this there was a game played between McGill University and Harvard (1875) in which running with the ball, downs and tackling were introduced, (sounds more like modern american football doesn't it?)
This video really didn't do justice to College Football. For example, Davidson College, located in Davidson, NC, has one of the oldest Football teams in the state. They first played in 1898, though they had Rugby Football teams before that. The first and only Professional NFL team in North and South Carolina is the Carolina Panthers and they were an expansion team in 1995. So there was nearly 100 years of College Football before a "local" NFL team started and that one team covers two States, and there are some states that don't have an NFL team at all. So yeah Americans generally are more attached to our College Football teams than the pros. At least that's how I see it but others probably view it differently.
baseball comes from townball which comes from rounders- British basketball -Canadian football comes from rugby-British hockey -British all 4 big sports started as college then went pro only baseball started as pro.
The term Super Bowl name came to Lamar Hunt while watching the Rose Bowl and his kid playing with a Super Ball, which were little rubber balls that bounced aggressively high and far.
The forward pass was legalized in 1906. An incomplete pass resulted in a turnover, so quite a penalty.
This led eventually to changing the shape of the ball from a rugby ball to something that could be thrown as a spiral.
This is a great one "College Football 150 - The American Game - Evolution of the Game" by CFB Archive. It's 47 minutes and you might want to split it into 2 parts.
All the college conference champions, back in the day, went to a post-season “bowl” game as a reward for an accomplished season; i.e. The Rose Bowl, The Cotton Bowl, The Sugar Bowl, etc. The professional league coined the name “Super Bowl” as a spin-off of these games.
And now there is about 30 bowl games in late December to early January .
Half the school go to bowl game now .
@@robertdedrick7937 That's because bowl games are money generators, not for the Universites or football teams, they usually make very little or lose money. No, bowl games make tons of money for the corporate entities that sponsor them. They all wanted their piece of the pie so they forced the NCAA to turn into Opra.
It all goes back to the Ivy League. Yale's stadium design and name "The Yale Bowl" had a huge influence on the term "Bowl game".
The Forward Pass - which was opposed by Walter Camp - was one of the rules modifications
instituted by Teddy Roosevelt, and thus was part of the game starting in 1906.
The other big one was elimination of wedge plays, where the line would push one or two players forward through the defense. That alone was responsible for most of the serious injuries and deaths as it was very easy to trap your ball carrier between several advancing players on each side and squash the poor guy like a grape. Remember, no pads or helmets at the time.
It's a century old change that is still seeing review, thanks to the resurgence and discussion of the push sneak that the Eagles brought back with their 'tush push'. The NFL hadn't let off on the push rules until 2005 and it took this long for a team to start taking advantage again, and the same problems from 1906 still apply...
@@mfree80286 Absolutely.
The Ivy League is the name of the conference that a lot of very old and even more expensive private schools play in. Yes, it is aptly named, and the term was colloquially used for those schools, before there was an official conference of that name.
Biggest single point of departure was that by about 1880, interference (blocking) was legal which resulted in a large increase in violence (including fatalities). The forward pass came in as one possible solution to this violence.
Pro football mostly grew out of factory teams (and the odd athletic club) if you were to draw a wide line from Pittsburgh to Minneapolis, you would cover most of the early pro teams. College was much more regional, with only a few teams doing much traveling out of their region. One notable exception was when Notre Dame (from a bit east of Chicago) came East to play West Point (the US army Military Academy) in upstate New York in 1913 and showed that their Midwest-style Passing attack (learned from University of Chicago and St Louis University) was a LOT more advanced than anything on the East Coast. Notre Dame won 35-10 and passed AND ran all over the Cadets. Future General/President Dwight Eisenhower watched from the bench, he'd been injured earlier in the season almost but not quite seriously enough to scupper his Army career.
Their are some notes from the 1869 Rudgers/Princeton game indicating that hand-passing and bounce-dribbling were permitted (but running with the ball was NOT). So whichever codes they were drawing probably included some of the ones that had lead to Australian Rules and Gaelic.
The one rule that seems to be "common" to all the codes that allowed catching the ball was the "mark" rule. Which survives in most modern codes in one form or another.
American Football
NFL professional football
College has
FBS Div 1
FCS Div 1
Div 2
Div 3
NJCCA Junior College
NAIA
AFL - Arena Football
As you can see there are many varied football played here.
There even more than listed, but check out an Arena game. Its unique.
The forward pass was made legal in 1906, as part of the safety measures mentioned by @theblackbear211. Helmet development, btw, began in the 1890s; widely used by the 1920s but not mandated in the NFL until after WWII.
Gridiron Football essentially takes Rugby Football's niche in both American and Canadian sports. Forward Pass was in 1906. 1906 also raised the down and distance requirements from 5 yards in 3 downs to 10 yards in 3 downs. Americans added 4th Down in 1912, Canadians never added 4th down.
One year in the early 1900s, 9 players died in College Football. That's why we wear pads and helmets
Just FYI - though Walter Camp may have tried to make the Game "less brutal" in the 1880's -
President "Teddy" Roosevelt - who was no "shrinking violet" himself, almost banned College Football in 1905
because of the number of deaths occurring during games.
19 -25 were killed (depending on whose numbers you credit) in 1905 alone!
He insisted on rules changes, thus was credited by some, with "saving football".
Yep and one of the rules that were later added to combat deaths was mandating helmets.
If I'm not mistaken, Camp continued to be heavily involved in the early 1900s and thus had a lot to do with the changes made in response to Roosevelt's call.
@@TheMJfromTN He was indeed, but from what I've read, he was opposed to the forward pass - which Roosevelt successfully pushed for through his influence with the other rules makers.
Good call on the "Ivy League".
American football has a similarity to a bastard child of Chess and Dominos (not the game of dominos but setting them up and triggering a result) Where the formations are the Chess gambits and then like Dominos, all the pieces try to fall where they are supposed to. The trick is both sides have their own formations and a Coach much choose which to use. Strategy, with athletic execution.
The forward pass is definitely the biggest rule change from Rugby that created American Football as we know it, with line of scrimmage/downs being nearly as important. Over the century, this created the strategy heavy game we have today that has the greatest variety in player positions of any sport that I know of.
The Big 10 is the oldest conference in the highest level of college football; the channel “dalukes” did an INCREDIBLE video about the history of the Big 10 (he's done histories of most of the other conferences, too).
I see several saying when the forward pass came into being. The was a college player (Cetchums I believe) that was the earliest strategist of the forward pass a few years later. Then the ones that really brought it into the game Davey O'Brien thru Y. A. Tittle. Then you get into the modern football era. The first to throw a legal forward pass I think was named Robinson. I used to know all this many years ago.
This vid focuses more a history of professional football, but a lot of the development was going on in college football for a very long time because it started there. The forward pass wasn't popular for a long time until they really started pushing it more like around 1915 by making it more profitable nd less if a risk, to use it to open the game up because for a solid several decades since about the 1890s the reason players were dying was because they were doing these "mass plays", where they would sort of all link up together and run over a person as a group. There were also some rules about how you could basically continue to crawl under a mass of men to make more yards, and so they would stop the person crawling forward by leaping on him knees first and crushing him to the ground. You could also pick up the ball carrier literally carry him or throw him forward to advance the ball, essentially making him part of the ball; so all of these rules were changed to lower the annual death toll, and some schools like the ones on the West Coast banned football & went back to rugby because it was safer, which kind of says a lot about how the game had developed differently to the point where rugby was considered "the safe option". A lot of those schools didn't go back to playing the evolving game of football with everybody else until quite a few years later, after enough of changes took effect to make it safe enough to be worth it to them.
That change took a while because a lot of the old guard thought they were turning it into a "namby pamby" little sport for effeminate men, because people weren't risking their lives to play it I guess? But it also says a lot about how brutal life was for young men back then that it was considered a proper training around for a young man to face his future life if he were to risk his life for honor and glory on the field like that, to the point that people were literally worried about the state of masculine ideals and all of that if they were to make the game safer. So of course a lot of the resistance to taking away the mass plays and instituting the forward pass as a useful endeavor was because it would make the game safer, ie apparently basically a wussy game. You still hear those same arguments today every time they make a change in the rules to make the game safer. The older generation complains that the younger generation doesn't know how to risk their lives properly in the name of honor and brotherhood. All of that, "You guys couldn't handle our game when we played without pads and rung each other's bells and knocked each other out constantly " etcetera etcetera. Hard to imagine how many people had died of CTE and related stuff back in the arly years!
The last big change was making the forward pass more useful, as a way to open the game up so that the mass plays that had pretty much been mandated away were turned into a useless method, and it became more of a faster and more running-related game as opposed to a sort of smashing into each other over and over again sort of thing. They used nose guards at the time that kind of also doubled as mouthguards, and didn't use helmets for a very long time because they actually believed that having a thick head of hair was better at protecting your head, and they thought that you were basically a pansy if you wore the leather helmet that was really more of an ear guard, kind of like the thin ones that are worn in rugby sometimes. They actually had a thing called "football hair" that was popular because most of the young men would have had crew cuts at the time, and so if you had "football hair" (which would mean hair that is rather long by that those standards back then but still fairly short by ours), you were getting all the girls Etc, so it became a fashion trend. The nose guards were ridiculous looking and probably a lot of people didn't wear them because they would really obstruct your breathing because back then the game was a lot more like rugby, and so you were going full tilt the whole time without the strategic pauses that are in there now. They didn't even have that neutral zone in between the two lines, and so people were just slamming into each other and punching each other in the face and all sorts of things.
A lot of this history is very interesting and intricate and can be found on this guy's channel: Hardcore College Football History, if you're interested in learning more about a lot of this. He has about a six-part documentary series on the history of the development of the game.
I get why a longer video would be too much but there's some awesome longer videos that cover forward pass and the history of specialized positions. Even the goal posts
You should definitely check out Tennessee’s dark mode entrance. It’s 100 times better than our normal entrance.👍🏻
I'll get that on the list
4:35 Latrobe and Jeannette are both small suburban cities east of Pittsburgh. I'm quite proud to be from the area professional football got it's start. Hey, maybe that's part of the reason all us Yinzers are so crazy about football, it's in our blood!
One of the best NFL Films ever produced was They Call It Pro Football, narrated by the great John Facenda aka The Voice of God...
The forward pass was introduced in 1906, but it didn’t become more highly used until the ball was redesigned a decade later. The rounder rugby ball gave way to the pointier American football. With this redesign the kicking game became diminished.
Yes do the longer videos even if you have your break them up in parts!!
Fun Detail - the 2 oldest teams in the NFL are the Green Bay Packers (1919) and the Chicago Bears (1920) -
who are arch-rivals, though at different times in their history either team has helped the other to stay in business.
Chicago Cardinals. (Morgan Athletic club,Racine Cardinals) 1899
@@FrankeeLee223 I stand corrected.
The Rules Committee legalized the Forward Pass in 1906 though it was used illegally by some teams prior.
You should check out the coach that the super bowl trophy was named after.
Do the long history video! It'll be worth it
We're getting football games in August. Gonna be real soon.
Check out the NFL video "Top 10 things that changed the game."
Princeton is an Ivy League school,
Ivy leaguers usually suck at Football because academic standards are much higher, so the Football suffers
The reason you haven't seen Princeton in the football stadiums vids is because you haven't gotten to the Ivy Leagues yet. Those are the really prestigious schools, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Penn, Dartmouth and Cornell. Great schools, but not great football anymore.
Hi Lyle!
You could watch the history of the AFL/NFL rivalry.
The game they claimed was the first between Rutgers and Princeton shouldn't really be claimed as the first game of american football, as they were not allowed to pick up or carry the ball (sound more like soccer doesn't it?) 5 years after this there was a game played between McGill University and Harvard (1875) in which running with the ball, downs and tackling were introduced, (sounds more like modern american football doesn't it?)
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This video really didn't do justice to College Football. For example, Davidson College, located in Davidson, NC, has one of the oldest Football teams in the state. They first played in 1898, though they had Rugby Football teams before that. The first and only Professional NFL team in North and South Carolina is the Carolina Panthers and they were an expansion team in 1995. So there was nearly 100 years of College Football before a "local" NFL team started and that one team covers two States, and there are some states that don't have an NFL team at all. So yeah Americans generally are more attached to our College Football teams than the pros. At least that's how I see it but others probably view it differently.
baseball comes from townball which comes from rounders- British
basketball -Canadian
football comes from rugby-British
hockey -British
all 4 big sports started as college then went pro only baseball started as pro.
Basketball was invented by a Canadian in the US.
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