The papers of Walter Chauncey Camp, father of American football and the foremost authority on sports and physical fitness of his day, include correpondence with J.W. Heisman, Vance McCormick, Theodore Roosevelt, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Ray Tompkins, Caspar Whitney, and Fielding Yost. These letters and the official football rules and minutes of the American Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee trace the development of the sport. Major subjects documented include the history of American sports, athletics, and physical fitness.
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