Football Archaeology Camp in California

One of the top experts in early football rules history Timothy P. Brown joins us on the discussion to explain why we read of coaching exploits of Walter Camp in California. Timothy Brown's FootballArchaeology.com has a daily football factoid that he shares that are really quite interesting in a short read. They preserve football history in a very unique way and we are quite happy that Tim has agreed to join us each week to go over some of his Today's Tidbits. Click that link and you can subscribe for free to receive them yourself each evening.

Generally when we think of Walter Camp, we think of his presence on the sideline of Yale, in an East Coast setting in the autumn weather of the North East. Most of the time this is a completely accurate picture of the Father of Football. Football was spreading like wildfire across the country though around the turn of the century. The schools of the Midwest and Far West were looking for guidance to get their programs up and running. In California, Stanford was one of these intitution that at least at first wanted their gridiron program to become eleite and fast. The except was the handling of Fielding H. Yost just after his one season there. On a few occassions Stanford paid to have Walter Camp leave the New Haven area aftre the season had ended to go out West and coach up their elevens as well.

Timothy Brown's FootballArchaeology.com has a daily football factoid that he shares that are really quite interesting in a short read. They preserve football history in a very unique way and we are quite happy that Tim has agreed to join us each week to go over some of his Today's Tidbits. Click that link and you can subscribe for free to receive them yourself each evening.

In this edition Tim goes over Walter Camp's California Adventures.

The photos in this article are both from Picture of Walter Camp.

A Very Special thanks to information obtained from Timothy P. Brown and his exciting website and books.