{"id":15417,"date":"2024-09-10T14:30:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/uncategorized\/new-haven-born-american-football-has-returned\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T14:30:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T18:30:06","slug":"new-haven-born-american-football-has-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/who-knew-blog\/new-haven-born-american-football-has-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"New Haven-Born, American Football Has Returned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Football season is back in full effect, beckoning Swifties to the sidelines and alumni to the Yale Bowl Stadium. The City of New Haven plays home to the nation\u2019s brightest, cuisine\u2019s most innovative, industries\u2019 future titans, and, if you didn\u2019t know, the sport of American football. The soul of the sport was born in the 19th century in the United Kingdom with a set of simple rules \u2013 kick a ball toward a goal over a line. Somewhere there and whereafter, American sports culture and the spirit of New Haven reimagined the verb, and a new sport was born.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The indisputable \u201cFather of American Football,\u201d Walter Camp, attended Yale University<\/span> (Yale College at the time)<\/span><\/i> from 1875 to 1880. Camp worked at New Haven Clock Company while studying medicine and playing rugby for the university until he changed the game entirely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Before Camp invented football as a University coach, he invented the line of scrimmage.\u00a0 In creating the line of scrimmage, a core tenant in the modern sport, Camp planted a seed that today blooms in Kelce\u2019s, evolving the sport of rugby into what we recognize today as American football.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

142 years ago, the celebrated sport was born. And now, the sport returns to our fields, screens, and fantasy rosters. Soon, the Bulldogs will be back at Yale Bowl. The season kicks off on September 21, and the Yale Bulldogs will take on the Holy Cross Crusaders in Worcester, Massachusetts. Later this season, they\u2019ll face off with the teams from Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Brown, and if we\u2019re hedging bets, we\u2019re making room for W\u2019s in the Elm City.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Football is far from the first or only thing invented in New Haven.\u00a0<\/span>The sport joins the ranks of the New Haven-born, all of which you can read about\u00a0here<\/a> in our blog post, \u201cWhat\u2019s In a Name?<\/span>\u00a0Welcome to New Haven.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a place to dine before the game, we have a scene for every foodie. If you\u2019re looking for a place to watch the game, we\u2019ll save you a seat at the bar. If you\u2019re taking the field as a Bulldog, we\u2019re in your corner. Let football season begin!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Football season is back in full effect, beckoning Swifties to the sidelines and alumni to the Yale Bowl Stadium. The City of New Haven plays home to the nation\u2019s brightest, cuisine\u2019s most innovative, industries\u2019 future titans, and, if you didn\u2019t know, the sport of American football. The soul of the sport was born in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[656,655],"tags":[635,1022],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-15417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do","category-who-knew-blog","tag-sports-recreation","tag-yale"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2023_11_18_16-08-54_R5A_6379-scaled-1-1140x445.jpg",1140,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2023_11_18_16-08-54_R5A_6379-scaled-1-463x348.jpg",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2023_11_18_16-08-54_R5A_6379-scaled-1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"full":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2023_11_18_16-08-54_R5A_6379-scaled-1.jpg",2500,1667,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15417"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=15417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}