{"id":4446,"date":"2019-08-19T13:41:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:50:55","slug":"discover-walter-camp-father-american-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/collections\/vintage-collection\/discover-walter-camp-father-american-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Walter Camp the Father of American Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2019-musical-health-builder.jpg\" alt=\"Close\u2011up of a red \u2018Musical Health Builder\u2019 record label and adjacent vintage exercise illustration\" class=\"wp-image-4448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2019-musical-health-builder.jpg 600w, https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2019-musical-health-builder-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2019-musical-health-builder-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In celebration of college football season starting, we wanted to share a recording we have here at the Recorded Sound Archives by Walter Camp known as the Father of American Football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While working as an adviser to the United States military during World War I, Camp devised a program to help servicemen in both the Navy and Army become more physically fit. Camp wrote a book explaining the exercises and extolling their benefits. This book was later taken and recorded in 1921 and marketed to a wider audience with the Musical Health Builder record sets called the Daily Dozen Health Building Exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The names of the exercises in the original Daily Dozen, as the whole set became known, were hands, grind, crawl, wave, hips, grate, curl, weave, head, grasp, crouch, and wing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of which can be heard here at the Recorded Sound Archives, <a href=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/album\/51826\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a> to listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of college football season starting, we wanted to share a recording we have here at the Recorded Sound Archives by Walter Camp known as the Father of American Football. 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