Baseball has been the most dominate sport for most of the twentieth century. For

the last twenty years, however football has become Americans pastime. College Football

has contributed to the popularity, but the main reason is the National Football League.

To understand the National Football League you have to understand the rules of

the game and where they came from. The rules of football was created by Walter Camp

who played football for the University of Yale in 1876-1882. He led colleges to adapt to

his new rules, the scoring system, field goals, safety, and points. Other person who change

some of rules was Teddy Roosevelt in 1905. He said ( The game of football was entirely

too violent and there should be new rules to make the game safer.) This led to forward

pass and better helmets. These rules changes led to the beginning of the National Football

The National Football League began in 1920 as the American Professional Football

Association. After two years they renamed it to the National Football League. It took five

years for the game to really take off, until they got their first superstar, Red Grange, a

running back from the University of Illinois. H

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