Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-21
CAMP TO RETIRE FROM
FOOTBALL COMMITTEE
Announcement Made mt Recent Dinner.
Game Loses Ono OF Its Stnunch-
est Supporters.

Prior to the, meeting of the. Inter
Iollegiate Football Rules Committee In
cred 10 his associates of the committee
dinner AT this dinner Mr.. Camp an
nounced his retirement from the COM
m!ltee al the close Of the current year.
The passing of Mr.. Camp from the
rules committee marks such an epoch
in intercollegiate football that 1t In
Nites especial comment. The first game
Of football under the present code i'm
It's original form was the struggle be-
tween Harvard and Yale. at New Haven
in 1876, and the second game was the,
At tho same place two weeks later. both
OF which games Yale won. Upon that
original championship "nftcen'' Wal
ter Camp played at halfback
Two years later MIR. Camp appeared
~ the intercollegiate Convention at
Springfield. n body corresponding to the
present rules committee. as Iale's rep
kochfort. Yale -. Mr.. Camp MT the
lime being football captain nj Yale.
From that year to this, a period OF
Wales repressnfive il, hnn nls aesa
footballs matchmaking bodies.
camp suggests Idea OF An Eleven.
|, was Mr.. Camp who invented the
ne hrst break away from classic Rug
by and its fifteen" players. il was
ne; also. who devised the idcn OF an
orderly possession Of the bail by one
side. and It's being put In play bv a
forward whom he designated ma the
snapper e1 hack. thus making the second
Asain II was MI Camp wi Who bro Ike
away from the Rugby dimensions Of
ne Paving field and established tho
,hnsa iensth and width. All OF
while sim an undergraduates
~ year or two later Mr.. Camp solved
same devised ~ rrince @E IN" in wbIck
orc team continually held tho bali
Without releasing j, to opponents I'M.
Camps solution was The inVnntior :;
fairs and downs" by which tho siJa
IN possession OF the ball was given
20 advance the ball I'VE Yards IA lin.
~ which the bah went 10 opponnnts
y tn'r was The name OF the play by
WNhIch the ball was put in play from tho
SIDE line when out OF bounds. fa,nilinr
10 MYERS ,s OF ,he early ..9s and before.
mai vs." iur ing i',Ttm,i"n that gave the
making of II, distinctivciy Amerirnn
Shline ana hr'nring on tho line
ing field the endcarcd name OF "grid
Established Scoring sv.tsn
TWO years later MIR Camn led in ~.
establishment OF the numericnl SYSTEM
81 scoring by which values were o.i
Isnfo 1He h scoring nG plays Mr. Camp
gest that safcties should count in cn,S
pntlns score. and should count nd
" nv tlNe MAKING them
viously safetics we're 1naInmo, re- g
prcsent-day touchbaCky "
In lsSS II was MIR. Camp who devised
tho very institutior or the Rules Cn,,'I
mit,tef itseli; pI.sGntinE 10 the Inter
omprehensive plan for such n he Rod"
oriEina,iy dssiGnated .by him as a
and appeals: proposition which wss
adopted. MI CAMPS Leadership js
Nivid!y recalled in tho lradnrshin r.
abolish the dangerous momentum, ~,
PLAYS In 1898. Ten years later. in foot,
halfs most .troublesome days. IL was
Mr.. Camp who introduced Tho 90
yard rule 10 force into use open s,yie
Mr.. Camps latest Innovation o,,o,o
his major ach!evercnts with the riIlcs
Was ms inirodnctlon in itl2 OF an nd.
ditiona! dom TO the Of.nsc ~ ,rbinI
the balance between. the of.enso snI
defense was again brought into nd.
justmcnt. 81"
such. arr, the more ,mpor,an, fen.
lures IN the rules which owe ,hcir
works would fiji volume '''''