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3 unusual facts about Walter Camp


1876 in sports

Walter Camp enrolls at Yale University and will become perhaps the most important figure in college football history.

1880 in sports

Walter Camp becomes an influential figure at the Massasoit House conventions where rules are debated and changed.

Alexander Brown Mackie

Mackie's 1922 team was considered having "no great strengths" by football legend Walter Camp.


1898 Michigan Wolverines football team

All-Americans: William Cunningham (Casper Whitney's first team, Walter Camp's second team), Allen Steckle (Walter Camp's second team), Charles Widman (Whitney substitute), John McLean (Whitney substitute), Charles Street (Leslie's Weekly second team)

1906 Michigan Wolverines football team

No Michigan players received first-team All-American honors from Walter Camp or Caspar Whitney.

Dan Hawkins

Only Walter Camp, George Washington Woodruff and Bob Pruett had more total wins in their first five years of head coaching.


see also

1997 College Football All-America Team

Ricky Williams, Texas (AP, AFCA-Coaches, FWAA-Writers, Walter Camp, TSN, FN)

1998 College Football All-America Team

Ricky Williams, Texas (AFCA, AP, FWAA, TSN, Walter Camp, FN)

2001 College Football All-America Team

Damon Duval, Auburn (Walter Camp, AFCA-Coaches, AP)

2002 College Football All-America Team

Ken Dorsey, Miami (Fla.) (AFCA-Coaches, Walter Camp)

Bob Westfall

At the end of the 1941 season, Westfall was a consensus All-American, selected as the first-team fullback by Grantland Rice, the Associated Press ("AP"), United Press, All-America Board, Collier's, the Newspaper Enterprise Association ("NEA"), the International News Service, the Central Press Association, the New York Sun and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.