December 11, 2019 By Michael Hope A Yale, and Hopkins School grad, and known by most as “The Father of American Football”, Walter Camp played a leading role in the creation of football. In the sport’s infancy, football resembled both rugby, and Association Football, Camp proposed a series of changes, such as the introduction of a line of scrimmage, and the legalization of blocking, helping distinguish American football as its own identity. Camp attended Yale from 1876 to 1882 and was a member of the football team. As a member of the team, Camp played the halfback position, was team captain, and in 1878 became a member of the Intercollegiate Football Association, where he became a fixture. That same year at the Intercollegiate Football Association, Camp took the bold move in proposing the reduction of the number of players on a field from 15 to 11, a proposal that was initially rejected, but later implemented in 1880. (PFRA) That same year, Camp proposed another revolut...

By Sam Jensen In the year of 1837, at the young age of fifteen, Donald Grant Mitchell’s romance with New Haven began with his arrival at Yale College. Mitchell was, from the beginning, enthralled by the architectural beauty of the city, and the nature which surrounded and complemented it as a whole. In Waldo Dunn’s biography of Mitchell, the scene of his arrival to New Haven is depicted in detail. Dunn writes, “We of the present need, perhaps, to be reminded of the New Haven and the Yale of 1837… New Haven was then an isolated town of some 13,000 inhabitants—a kind of backwoods Athens. Not until two years later was railway connection with the outside world established… Even prior to 1837, however, the beauty-loving zeal of James Hillhouse had been instrumental in transforming New Haven into the ‘City of Elms,’ ” (Dunn, 43). Having arrived before heavy industrialization, Mitchell’s Yale days were set in a more quiet and quaint City of Elms than it had become by the end of his life....

By: Adam Schwabacher    In the mid 19 th  century millions of immigrants moved to the United States to escape poverty, persecution, or to start a new life. During these years most immigrants started to settle in cities like New York and Boston. Overcrowding in cities like Boston and New York were common, so this prompted people to flock to smaller cities like New Haven in order to start a new life and find individual jobs. One of the places these immigrants settled was an area of New Haven called Westville. When these immigrants came they brought over their ideals, culture, and religion. At the time Westville was mostly a Jewish neighborhood. This neighborhood would later be home to Italians, Irish, Russians, Germans, and African Americans. When a group of people start living in one area, these people want to start up their own places to meet and practice religion. For the people who believe in Roman Catholicism that meant they wanted to set up ...