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(b. 7 April in New Britain, Connecticut; d. 14 March in New York City), football innovator and authority on college athletics who was instrumental in the development of American football rules and is considered the father of American football.

Camp was the only child of schoolmaster-publisher Leverett Lee and Ellen Cornwell Camp, both of New Britain, Connecticut.

In Camp moved with his parents to New Haven, Connecticut.

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He attended Hopkins Grammar School, a noted institution adjacent to Yale University. After graduating near the top of his class, he entered Yale in , receiving an A.B. in and going on to Yale Medical School. He had nearly completed medical school when he left because, as he told a close friend, he disliked the sight of blood.

In Camp joined the Manhattan Watch Company in New York City. The next year, he gained employment as a salesman for the New Haven Clock Company. On 30 June Camp married Alice Graham Sumner, the sister of William Graha