ootball in the late 1890s was a period of calmness insofar as changes and transformation of the game go. Players and coaches used those years to perfect their systems, even to tweak old schemes to work under the new rules imposed in 1896.
Football in the new century: 1900
Walter Camp once again was thinking of strategy rather than rules revisions. Camp and a small group of men were exploring a novel idea of the Yale coach to take advantage of a defensive line strategy of the day. It was common in 1900 for the defensive "rush-line forwards," as they were often called, to charge their opposition low at the snap of the ball and drive them backwards.
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