Chapter 9 - The Twelfth Player in Every Football Game - Exploring the Text: According to Ben McGrath, it was Yale football coach Walter Camp, the so-called Father of American Football, whose “preference for order over chaos led to the primary differentiating element between the new sport (football) and its parent, English rugby: a line of scrimmage, with discrete plays, or downs, instead of scrums,” and who, in the 1890s, tried to present football as an upper-class training ground, not as a “middle class spectator sport.” What do you suppose Walter Camp would think of the NFL now? Do you think this cartoon has resonance today? Explain your answer.