Lets Take A Look At The History Of American Football

Super Bowl 50 is right around the corner so we thought it was a perfect time to look back at how the game has changed over the years and how it came to be in the first place.

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Football as we know it didn’t come on to the scene until 1920 when the American Professional Football Association  was formed and then 2 years later the NFL that we know and love today was born.  But there have been traces of the game found as late 1800’s. Walter Camp a Yale University, and Hopkins School Graduate is considered to be the “Father of American Football”.

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Testing the new helmets
testing the new helmets

The Football itself has changed drastically over the years.
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Leather Helmet from 1910
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Its amazing how much things have changed.
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