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=**The Invention of Football, Walter Camp.**=



America’s game, football has been in the lives of everyone in the great nation we live in. Derived from England, the sport has impacted the athletic side of our lives. Someone from a another country could have the perception Super Bowl and think it’s a national holiday, because of how many people all come together and watch two teams square up against each other for the championship ring. All the credit for making this quickly growing sporting event goes to Walter Camp, the founder of football. Walter Camp attended Yale from 1876 to 1882, where he studied medicine and business. He was general athletic director and head advisory football coach at Yale University from 1888-1914, and chairman of the Yale football committee from 1888-1912. Camp played football at Yale and helped evolve the rules of the game away from Rugby and Soccer rules into the rules of American Football as we know them today.

=**The Invention of The Breakaway Rim.**= During the early age of basketball, dunking was a taboo, and was never really used outside of warm-ups. A shattered backboard or mutilated rim could delay a game for hours and sometimes days. During the 1970s, however, players like Julius Erving of the American Basketball Association popularized the dunk, increasing the demand for flexible rims. Created by Arthur Ehrat, the breakaway rim is a basketball hoop that can bend slightly when a player dunks a basketball, and then instantly snap back into a horizontal position when the player releases it. It allows players to dunk the ball without shattering the backboard, and reduces the possibility of wrist injuries. Breakaway rims were invented in the mid-1970s and are now a need for high-level basketball like college and professional basketball. The breakaway rim was first used by the NCAA during the 1978 Final Four in St. Louis. The NBA began using them after Darryl Dawkins shattered two backboards with his dunks in 1979. This innovation changed the whole game of basketball. It made the art of dunking a norm instead of a taboo.

=**Celtics Lakers Rivalry**= The rivalry between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers involves the two most storied basketball franchises in National Basketball Association (NBA) history. The two teams played each other, a record setting twelve times in the NBA championship. Beginning in 1959 they would continue to battle it out in the 1960s, 1980s, and 2000s. During the rivalry basketballs greatest one-on-one rivalries took center stage with Larry bird from the Celtics, and Magic Johnson of the Lakers. Magic beat out Bird winning 2 out of the three championships. These two teams have won the most NBA championships, the Celtics 17, the Lakers 16, together they have won more than half of the 65 championships in NBA history. The Celtics-Lakers rivalry is not only the greatest team rivalry in pro basketball, but also the greatest championship rivalry in America.