Walter Camp Recognized in Hartford Courant article about State’s Greatest Coaches
Walter Camp was recognized as the one of the state’s greatest coaches, according to an article in the Hartford Courant on March 9th.
Camp was Yale’s first football coach and from 1876 until 1910 he played an important role in the direction of the technique and strategy of Yale football. He was a member of every rules convention or committee until 1911. His All-America teams for the years 1898 through 1924, were recognized as official. But most of all, his fame rests upon the fact that he, above all others, was responsible for conceiving and bringing into being the game of football which typifies the American competitive spirit in its premium upon imagination, speed, strategy and daring, as well as upon sheer physical ability and durability.