1872 1875 2013 2015 2016 Father of American Football 1872: Walter Camp, a student at Yale, is credited with inventing American football, and he later becomes known as the “Father of American Football.” See Full Story Yale plays its first football game against Wesleyan University On November 13, 1875, Yale played its first football game against Wesleyan University in New …
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