He was also a fixture at the rules conventions, finally gaining traction with his ideas in 1880. Camp was a student at Yale from 1876 to 1882 and an avid athlete, playing on Yale's football team from '77 until he left school in '82. 'It was in 1880 that the sport really began to take shape, thanks almost exclusively to one person: Walter Camp. The game was inching closer to what we know today as football.' That meeting, known as the Massasoit Convention, created rules based largely on the Rugby Football Union code. As Harvard slowly won over the other schools to its style of play, it necessitated a new meeting to standardize new rules. The two schools played essentially the same type of game, with rugby-style rules, including running with the ball. Harvard, which played a more rugby-heavy style, refused to attend the meeting, continuing to play the game their way, notably in two contests against McGill University (from Montreal).
In 1873, representatives from Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers and Yale met to formalize rules however, these rules were based mostly on soccer. 'After Princeton and Rutgers got things started, other eastern universities began to cotton on to playing the game, first with Columbia University, and later other schools like Harvard and Yale. In order to do that, however, rules would have to be put in place to truly differentiate the sport.' This first college game was essentially soccer, but nevertheless laid the groundwork for the modern game as we know it today. However, unlike soccer, there were 25 players on each side, not the usual 11. The game was played under modified London Football Association rules - for example, players could only kick the ball, not touch it with their hands and each score, called a goal, counted for one point (Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4). It what is commonly billed as the first college football game, Princeton and Rutgers played each other on Novemat Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The earliest history of the sport tells us that no single variety of the game was played some schools played essentially soccer, others rugby, while still others played various combinations of the two (and certainly without any formalized rules). However, as both games made their way across the Atlantic, they were both played at colleges and universities, and out of those two games, football was born.
Rugby itself grew out of the soccer tradition in England, so soccer is truly at the very core of this sport. 'The game of American football (hereafter referred to just as "football") developed out of something like a cross between association football (or soccer) and rugby. Football Origins, Growth and History of the Game Soccer and Rugby
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