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The History of National Football League Baseball has been the most dominate sport for most of the twentieth century. For the last twenty years, however football has become Americans pastime. College Football has contributed to the popularity, but the main reason is the National Football League. To understand the National Football League you have to understand the rules of the game and where they came from. The rules of football was created by Walter Camp who played football for the University of Yale in 1876-1882. He led colleges to adapt to his new rules, the scoring system, field goals, safety, and points. Other person who change some of rules was Teddy Roosevelt in 1905. He said ( The game of football was entirely too violent and there should be new rules to make the game safer.) This led to forward pass and better helmets. These rules changes led to the beginning of the National Football League. The National Football League began in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association. After two years they renamed it to the National Football League. It took five years for the game to really take off, until they got their first superstar, Red Grange, a running back from the University of Illinois. H