Editing Walter Camp (section)

==Life==
Camp was born in [[New Britain, Connecticut]], the son of Leverett Camp and Ellen Sophia (Cornwell) Camp. Walter Camp was of English descent. His first immigrant ancestor was the English colonist Nicholas Camp, who came from [[Nazeing]], [[Essex]], [[England]] and arrived in colonial [[New England]] in 1630, arriving first in [[Massachusetts Bay Colony|Massachusetts]] and then moving to Connecticut that same year.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Walter Camp: football and the modern man|last=Des Jardins|first=Julie|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2015|isbn=9780199925636|location=New York|pages=9|quote=Nicholas Camp, his earliest known ancestor, came to Massachusetts and settled in Connecticut in 1630.}}</ref> Walter attended [[Hopkins School|Hopkins Grammar School]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]], entered [[Yale University|Yale College]] in 1875, and graduated in 1880.<ref name="Yaleobit192425">{{cite web | url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1924-25.pdf | title=Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Year 1924–1925 | access-date=March 24, 2011 | year=1925 | publisher=Yale University | pages=1348–50}}</ref> At Yale he was a member of [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]] fraternity, the [[Linonian Society]], and [[Skull and Bones]].<ref name="Yaleobit192425"/> He attended [[Yale Medical School]] from 1880 to 1883,<ref name=yalenews /> where his studies were interrupted first by an outbreak of [[typhoid fever]] and then by work for the Manhattan Watch Company. Camp worked for the New Haven Clock Company beginning in 1883, working his way up to chairman of the board of directors.<ref name="Yaleobit192425" />

===Playing career===
In 1873, Camp attended a meeting where representatives from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale universities created the [[Intercollegiate Football Association]] (IFA). The representatives created the rule that each team is only allowed 15 plays per drive. Camp played as a [[Halfback (American football)|halfback]] at Yale from [[1876 Yale Bulldogs football team|1876]] to [[1882 Yale Bulldogs football team|1882]]. His primary sports were baseball and rugby football before it developed into American football.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Walter Chauncey Camp|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/sports-and-games/sports-biographies/walter-chauncey-camp|date=2022-01-24}}</ref> Harvard player Nathaniel Curtis took one look at Camp, then only 156 pounds, and told Yale captain [[Eugene V. Baker|Gene Baker]] "You don't mean to let that child play, do you? ... He will get hurt."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theunbalancedline.com/2010/03/year-by-year-1875.html|date=September 8, 1962|title=Camp Curbed the Carnage|work=Spokane Daily Chronicle}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19751121&id=mLgsAAAAIBAJ&pg=1131,4642309&hl=en|title=Star-News - Google News Archive Search|work=google.com}}</ref>

===Family===
On June 30, 1888, Camp married Alice Graham Sumner, sister of sociologist [[William Graham Sumner]]. They had two children: Walter Camp Jr. (1891–1940), who attended Yale as well and was elected as a member of [[Scroll and Key]] in 1912, and Janet Camp Troxell (1897–1987).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/05/17/100365643.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240601083141/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/05/17/100365643.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 1, 2024|title=Yale 'Taps' in rain amid great tension; Nervousness of the Marshaled Juniors Reflects Owen Johnson's Attack on the System|date=May 17, 1912|work=New York Times|access-date=2017-01-24}}</ref> Camp is buried with his wife and children in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven. He was an Episcopalian.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N3U_CgAAQBAJ&q=episcopalian | isbn=978-0-19-992563-6 | title=Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man | date=8 September 2015 | publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref>

===Coaching career===
Camp served as the head football coach at Yale from [[1888 Yale Bulldogs football team|1888]] to [[1892 Yale Bulldogs football team|1892]]. In his time with Yale, the team won 67 games and lost just 2 games.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Walter Camp {{!}} American sportsman|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Camp|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2020-05-20}}</ref> He then moved on to [[Stanford University]], where he coached in December 1892 and in [[1894 Stanford football team|1894]] and [[1895 Stanford football team|1895]]. On Christmas Day, 1894, [[Amos Alonzo Stagg]] and his University of [[Chicago Maroons]] defeated Camp's Stanford team 24–4 at San Francisco in an early intersectional contest.