Show Minute Minute Men of Football Walter Camp I N wI 0 i PICKING THE r tILL ALL AMERICAN I p L f ir I 4 7 P I 1 1 G THE ROU ROUGHNESS H NES S SOUT OUT OuD OF What Do You Know About the Big Men in the Gridiron Game Here Is s the First of Several Reviews to Be BeS S Printed jn in The Telegram I HEN Z a a. slender youth of 21 W WHEN tucked a football under hi his arm in 1880 1580 and ran ninety yards for one of the scores which helped Yale defeat Pennsylvania Pennsyl vania mla there probably was no prophet in the diminutive Yale grandstand who thought that youth would lIeto live lI to be the biggest figure in the king Icing of ot American college games gaines The youth was Walter Vatter Camp and today he stands out far and away ahead of anyone connected with football For years ears Camp has been a a. member member mem meni- ber of ot the rules committee which an an nally revises the regulations un under er which the game is played And during these years yeara h lie has hns painstakingly studied the game from every ery angle and has been Instrumental Instrumental instrumental mental In removing from football the prejudice brought about b by deaths and Injuries which threatened its very existence Camp earl early realized the danger to the tile game caused by massed formatiOns formations forma forma- by the flying and revolving wedges b by the use of ot sole leather armor plate by hurling and rough methods Year by year ear he fought these questions questions questions ques ques- out eliminating one after another another another an an- other until present da day football Isas is isas isas as different from that of the late nineties an as the modern rapid fire fir gun un I is from the revolutionary relics on I the Yale campus For years the hopes and ad fears of ever every football star have been centered centered centered cen cen- I on Camp for he lie Is the man who picks the American all-American team a place in which Is If the goal aimed at by I er e every American college football player Walter Camp was wa born in New NewHaven NewHaven Haven April 7 1859 and his early life I was so influenced b by Yale traditions living as he did almost on the campus that It Is not surprising that he entered entered en on- I college there In 1876 1870 During During- his four years ears in ip colle college he lie Interested himself In athletics athletic but was particularly brilliant In J starring during luring his last two years at school He lIe played halfback under the old rules r before the modern scoring system Iy- Iy tem tern was adopted Since that time Camp has frequently frequent frequent- ly 11 coached cOl at Yale under the graduate graduate graduate ate system and even as late as 1916 his services service were found extremely valuable Camp mp Is an extremely active man I and does no not confine himself to athletics He is president and general general gen gen- I eral manager of the New ew Haven Havell Clock company compan is an active director I of several severa corporations and during I his leisure finds time to write books and magazine articles and to edit I the I annual ul l football guide guld I |