Walter Camp, American football player and coach (died 1925)

Walter Camp

American football player and coach (1859–1925)

Walter Chauncey Camp was an American college football player and coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". Among a long list of inventions, he created the sport's line of scrimmage and the system of downs. With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop…