The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-21
By Walter Camp

The task proposed OF selecting twenty
iilustrious names IN football is a diff
| cult one and ! have endeavored To- do il
by means OF selecting historically the I'm
portant cpochs and the men who came to
the front a, these times. Viewed In this
way u would seem that the following
twenty names might fairly be taken TO
mean the most 10 the student OF the
sport:
Away back in the seventies. when Iiar
ward. rather disgusted. as were most OF
the college athletes. with the unsatls-
factory KIND OF football provided in the
| United States. und dertook, at tho invita-
ton of the Canadians. some rugby foot
| ball, VI. II. Grant OF. the class "a was
! the captain OF The team that tried out
these conclusions II happened that at
about the same period David .Schaff had
made starr toward the kicking game
HsT the sye ls Of Is i Sn5 TSs %sns TG5 ne"fXs tGs
captain OF the Harvard team that was
playing rugby football. and Baker. the
captain Of the Yale eleven. mot with their
respective managers at Springfield and
agreed upon certain compromise set OF
rules. In the following year, 10, these
rugby-and from this developed the prcs-
enl game known as American intcrcol-
Iogiate football
Whiting Of Harvard AMI Baker of Yale,
therefore. were the two pioneers who in
iroduced the present game as an inter
cSoilagiatc sport AS matter OF fact
Whiting himself did not play In the
game OF '76 ss he bad broken his leg in
the game with Canada. and Curtiss acted
as captain OF the Harvard team in his
place.
The man whose name is most closely
connected with the next great movement
In American football was {. G. Cuyler,
ihe old Princctonian. and one OF our
president of tile University Athletic club
in New York, took up the matter when
the rules had become Very unsatisfa ctory.
and his club. acting under his advice and
sanction. secured The consent OF repre-
sentative men from the various colleges
10 act as rules committee and make It's
report 10 this club which then promul-
gated tho rules. Tits continued for many
years Until tho club itself went out of
existence but 1t was Cuyler Who planned
" md Undoubtedly saved the situation at
that time.
The next development came when an
other upheaval OF criticism OF the game
arose. \ committee acting under the in
lcrcollcSiate association with CAPTAIN
Pierce at its head effected an amalga-
nation with tho old rules committed and
Professor Dennis OF Cornell received the
position. Hall OF Dartmouth later be-
came tho efficient secretary OF that COM
niltee and acted for several years This
committee. with these two officers |
serious phase.
But with these three names should bo
linked That OF James A. Babbitt OF Havcr- |
ford, who Is responsible more largely |
Than anyone else for the Improvement Ia |
rrlinss through his cliairmanship of tho |
hoatd OF officials. II WAS his work that |
mas been most cfficacious in cleaning up |
som" Of tho weaknesses OF tic old game |
l,ashicll OF Annapolis and Rell of the |
University OF PENNSYLVANIA were the two |
pc mbcrs OF tho old committees who fol-
loved the fortunes Of football tI,rongb |
THICK and fain. Dashiell being its main |
SPONSOR AT Annapolis. whilc Boil has
s,n acIcn IN q similar position at the Uni
NrIShH OF l'crnsvlvania-
nc men who have made their great
est mark in the football world through
! iae medium OF coaching and spreading
kMoWlcdc" ~ sport have been Yost al /
MICHIGAN Williams ar Minnesota, Wood
run AT Pennsylvanis and Stagr at Chi
ssEo. TO these might be added a mum
ner OF eastern coaches like Uaughtou OF
Harvard and Roper OF Princeton but
tneir task was simpler and not mission
sg n character Several coaches Of
eh"se originality IN football attack WAS
Scod. might be added
host not onh made mark on tha
football iuap hY the performances az bis |
ieams h,h added much 10 tho deyrlcn-
ment OF Hootbail In tnc middle wesl IIo
s."o, = through sending his own men out
thls m" \ very notable Instance OF ihi,
Was McGuEou. former Michigan MA,
am AMI MS work a, Vanderbilt Williams
then. going west. devcioped IA lst~r vI.h
The University OF Minnesota ~"
woodruff made his greatest name with
-. -. 'ei,o kuafnA back at thc
'WNrtslN ot Pennsvlvauia while stage
exhibited his inventive genius With ysTi
onS 'hicago teams and DEVELOPED botl,
nlaSs ana PLAYERS In marked fashion
vInnenbnC rpcn tho south. 10 DR. Dud
er OF Vanderbilt Should be given creSj,
Ior not only the nominating OF a stronc
hoard pf officials down there. bur siso
o.''Iprno"ni of the right Kind %
football snort rnrough that se,tIon' moi
AZ an active coach. hut as disse min
Tor OF the best spirit
'srocahlY no man has kent 50 we'll
posted on footcall cast and vest In ,hc |
,paehinE line ~ SheyIln. Tho former VIZ
,ap'sin snd "nd. who spends part OF 81.
IN" cscn year ~ tho middle. west and
,SrN 81 h'~ Time In the east. thur sArin.- |
ne dev"lopineni OF both sides az font
bali and being also one N the host 80, | ,
rEiEfs 30 tho sport todag
Md the mention Of Sleyliu hrl,,.
IN mini two oider great captzins ,-,,n | !
ne former l'y earn~st and r.sinst,lins, |
work and tho latter by lndIyidusI bril- ]