The 2013 BCS National Championship

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H. Brandt Ayers. The 2013 BCS National Championship

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The 2013 BCS National Championship

A Reflection on America’s Moral Equivalent of War, Occasioned by the Latest Meeting on the Gridiron of the Crimson Tide and Notre Dame

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Roosevelt convened a 1906 White House meeting with the presidents of the three big Ivy League universities—Harvard, Princeton and Yale—and Walter Camp, the leading figure in the game’s formative years.

Camp was a formidable personage, a peer to the others in that White House meeting. He had done more than refine the grunts of rugby into a more elegant but still bone-breaking sport. His basic rules distinguishing football from rugby created a more fluid game of 11-member squads, seven linemen and four backs, on a lined field, with four tries to go ten yards or surrender the ball. Camp had played for Yale and was inducted into Skull and Bones, the secret network of elites. He became chairman of a watch manufacturing company, wrote hundreds of articles for national publications such as Harpers Weekly and Collier’s, advised the armed forces on physical fitness, and coached at Yale and later at Stanford.

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