Show ARI 0 N MR 4 P 0 RIN 14 7 ZT T W ite fl k 1 ap Is N VA 61 6 1 evad halar am P ID you read a brief nc news item which recently appear D p eared e d in the p r e a f a throughout the country announcing noun cing plans for the er erection of a national nt memorial to the late walter camp known whoever the game Is played as the father of american football unless you know the story of walter camp nail and the part lie ho played in making football dt it la Is today and in addition the btty it ry of ills his tips and downs during the daany ny years lie lind had of athletic at taj yale unless you have this hack back ground you wont appreciate fully the significance of tills this honor lind and the climax it produces in a fratila dauna of football 4 politics years ago long before college football ball profits rein ran into seven fugures walter waltee camp then known na as the casar at football at yole yale stood before a gathering of that heads and announced that lie ho had contrived to save out of football receipts astounded by the vastness or 0 this outa they were further astounded by mr camps Ps ambitious plans for a 8 peat great arena arena the yale bowl a new boathouse boat housa fully equipped and a new Eth athletic letle field questions immediately formed in the minds of ills hla listeners whence this secret fund fuad where did it come from anil and wb why there was the customary investigation he might have withstood the attack but the investigation disclosed that camp who was then en it a member of the faculty had rocel received Ted some compensation for his services no yale coach had ever taken pay far or his services camp bad not been paid for coaching but he had received a 11 modest suni sum about one fifth or less even ven than the remuneration of a pres ent day coach for his services as tre treasurer iier and manager of yale athletics and tits hla job on the faculty but they were after camp it was pointed out that lie had written books and articles for magazines and newspapers lie had turned ills his knowledge of football into snotie money y the fact arul hundred other yalo yale men wye wm recel receiving mone money v by tills this time for and writing on football was overlooked in 1010 when fred ialy daly was captain and ted coy was field coach the break cala caine sharing the fate that u ungrateful republics aro are pleased to bestow nestov res tov walter camp and his wizard ry which for many years had bad not only kept ept yale football supreme but also walnut the entire football world VOS vas deposed forever fore veras us adviser and erector director of tile the sport at yale at the time of camps death on arch 14 1025 tho the new nev haven cor car respondent spon dent of tile the boston alobe in biting writing 11 resume of tile the football wiz ards ds career pointed out that two j 71 atz I 1 i Y A A J i afo sq p of years after camp left yale that university was paying yale men twice as aa much for coaching as aa camp ever received and that in addition yale football was on that sure and certain downgrade course it pursued until the past two sen seasons sons 11 today yale alumni and nearly BOO american colleges and universities are raising a fund of for a memorial to take the form of a monumental gate gateway to the yale athletic fields at now new haven carved in stone over the arched entrance will be an inscription walter camp fields upon bronze tablets set into the walls walla flanking the arceli will appear by states the names of all universities colleges and prop prep schools which helped in making possible this memorial to perhaps the foremost exponent of popular ath let lesin american ITI story represented on the committee in chargo charge are such nationally national ly known alg figures in the world of sport as E K M liall of dartmouth chairman who rho tor for many years headed the football rules committee alonzo A stagg university of chicago and robert 0 university of illinois plans bilaus for the memorial were do designed by a yale man john W cross IDOO and have been approved by the yale corporation the national collegiate athletic w association Is functioning the campaign for funds among tile colleges of the country find and early success in the project of recognition for tile the rinther father of american football Is assured I walter Valter cump camp took a game that was so BO crude that it could not possibly be recognized as the predecessor of modern football and malo haq it over into a game of strategy scientifically balanced as between offense and defense commented albert barclay the tha new haven correspondent of tile the boston globe in reviewing camps life into it lie he put now new ideas from his resourceful mind all the time careful ly and shrewdly keeping to himself the whys ghys and wherefores of these ideas for ten years he stood alono alone as creator and originator of modern football and yale triumphed deland conceived the flying wedge camp hurled a single sturdy guard into it broke it and sent a halt balf back through the opening to tackle the runner he had solved the defense before the of ever got under way away back in the early OOs camp who was a good business man conceived the idea that football which attracted the tha public could and should pity pay the way for other college sport fl that the receipts and disbursements disbursement of 0 yule yale sports should be pooled and that by running college sports on a bustness business basis they could be made to pay and that the constant passing of tho the hat fiat for money to run sports among both undergraduates and graduates should be abolished the idea was too revolutionary to spring on the happy go lucky college world hence camp created at yale aal 0 tile the yale field association ile he became its hend head and treasurer he hus banded its funds and for fifteen years no BO one except a chosen few know knew that yale athletics were making money then camp began to unfold hl his a plans a great football arena an up to date boathouse and a new athletic field and lie he told yale dpn that he had saved tr toward vard carrying out his plans soon followed his downfall youve already heard that part of tho the story thus briefly you have the outline of what walter camp did for football at yale and the reword reward he received like all men who succeed continues the new haven writer he was waa invulnerable to criticism but the sad part of the attack upon walter camp by his own college wa waa that it came from an insignificant minority |