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In 2011, reviewing Camp's role in the founding of the sport and of the NCAA, Taylor Branch also credited Camp with cutting the number of players on a football team from 15 to 11 and adding measuring lines to the field.
However, Branch noted that the revelation in a contemporaneous McClure's magazine story of " Camp's $ 100, 000 slush fund ", along with concern about the violence of the growing sport, helped lead to President Theodore Roosevelt's intervention in the sport.
The NCAA emerged out of the national talks but worked to Yale's disadvantage relative to rival ( and Roosevelt's alma mater ) Harvard, according to Branch.

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