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31-572: The facility was named in honor of Michael F. "Mike" Ahearn . In 42 years at K-State, Ahearn served in a variety of roles, including as a coach, professor, Head of the Department of Physical Education, and Director of Athletics . Kansas State's men's basketball team posted an all-time record in Ahearn Field House of 369-96 (.793), including six undefeated seasons. By the late 1940s, it was obvious that Kansas State's 30-year-old gym, Nichols Hall ,

62-401: A " line of scrimmage " where the team with the ball started with uncontested possession and with each team fielding eleven players. This change effectively created the evolution of the modern game of American football from its rugby football origins, and was on display in the first game of football between two American colleges played with this format, Harvard and Tufts on June 4, 1875. He

93-532: A ball carrier in his own end zone followed by a free kick by the offense from its own 20-yard line to restart play. This is significant as rugby union has no point value award for this action, but instead awards a scrum to the attacking side five meters from the goal line. In 2011, reviewing Camp's role in the founding of the sport and of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Taylor Branch also credited Camp with cutting

124-623: A book explaining the exercises and extolling their benefits. During the 1920s, a number of newspapers and magazines used the term "Daily Dozen" to refer to exercise in general. Starting in 1921 with the Musical Health Builder record sets, Camp began offering morning setting-up exercises to a wider market. In 1922, the initiative reached the new medium of radio . Camp died of a heart attack on March 14, 1925, in New York City . Football historian Timothy P. Brown wrote of Camp nearly

155-711: A full-time job at the New Haven Clock Company, a Camp family business, and being an unpaid yet very involved adviser to the Yale football team, Camp wrote articles and books on the gridiron and sports in general. By the time of his death, he had written nearly 30 books and more than 250 magazine articles. His articles appeared in national periodicals such as Harper's Weekly , Collier's , Outing , Outlook , and The Independent , and in juvenile magazines such as St. Nicholas , Youth's Companion , and Boys' Magazine . His stories also appeared in major daily newspapers throughout

186-605: A man a running jump start for the serious work of the day. It is called the "daily dozen set-up", meaning thereby twelve very simple exercises. Both the Army and the Navy used Camp's methods. The names of the exercises in the original Daily Dozen, as the whole set became known, were hands, grind, crawl, wave, hips, grate, curl, weave, head, grasp, crouch, and wing. As the name indicates, there were twelve exercises, and they could be completed in about eight minutes. A prolific writer, Camp wrote

217-888: A meeting where representatives from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale universities created the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA). The representatives created the rule that each team is only allowed 15 plays per drive. Camp played as a halfback at Yale from 1876 to 1882 . His primary sports were baseball and rugby football before it developed into American football. Harvard player Nathaniel Curtis took one look at Camp, then only 156 pounds, and told Yale captain Gene Baker "You don't mean to let that child play, do you? ... He will get hurt." On June 30, 1888, Camp married Alice Graham Sumner, sister of sociologist William Graham Sumner . They had two children: Walter Camp Jr. (1891–1940), who attended Yale as well and

248-425: A quarterfinal game in the 1976 NIT . Ahearn Field House provided a legendary homecourt advantage for K-State. Former Kansas State coach Tex Winter said in his biography Trial By Basketball : "Kansas State won a lot of ballgames because of that crowd. Many times during timeouts you couldn't hear yourself talk. All I could do was scribble a play on the floor. The crowd there never died, even in one of our lulls –

279-427: Is credited with innovations such as the snap -back from center , the system of downs, and the points system as well as the introduction of what became a standard offensive arrangement of players—a seven-man line and a four-man backfield consisting of a quarterback , two halfbacks, and a fullback . Camp was also responsible for introducing the " safety ," the awarding of two points to the defensive side for tackling

310-1090: Is the current site of Memorial Stadium . The school further honored his memory in 1950 with the opening of Ahearn Field House , which used to house the school's volleyball and indoor track and field teams, and was home to the Kansas State basketball teams from 1950 to 1988.        National champion          Postseason invitational champion          Conference regular season champion          Conference regular season and conference tournament champion        Division regular season champion        Division regular season and conference tournament champion        Conference tournament champion # denotes interim head coach # denotes interim athletic director Walter Camp Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925)

341-753: The New York Evening Journal was made up of five players from Harvard, two from West Point, and one each from Yale, Princeton, Penn, and Brown. The selectors were typically Eastern writers and former players who attended only games in the East. In December 1910, The Mansfield News , an Ohio newspaper, ran an article headlined: "All-American Teams of East Are Jokes: Critics Who Never Saw Western Teams Play to Name Best in Country -- Forget About Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois." The article noted: Eastern sporting editors must be devoid of all sense of humor, judging by

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372-458: The United States. He also selected an annual " All-American " team. By the age of 33, twelve years after graduating from Yale, Walter Camp had already become known as the "Father of Football." In a column in the popular magazine Harper's Weekly , sports columnist Caspar Whitney had applied the nickname; the sobriquet was appropriate because, by 1892, Camp had almost single-handedly fashioned

403-452: The capacity and safety shortcomings of Nichols Hall. Opened in 1950 with a seating capacity of more than 14,000, Ahearn Field House was one of the first and largest purpose-built basketball arenas in the country. It was the largest arena in the state of Kansas until the construction of Allen Fieldhouse at the University of Kansas in 1955. Changing fire codes over the years forced changes to

434-421: The crowd would come alive and pick us up." The total men's basketball attendance from 1950 to 1988 was over 4,839,796. By the mid-1970s, it was obvious that the basketball team had outgrown Ahearn, and KSU administration decided that the basketball teams needed a new home. In 1979, KSU began raising money for what would become Bramlage Coliseum , which became the new home of the basketball teams in 1988. Over

465-504: The eastern readers will swallow anything. Camp was a proponent of exercise, and not just for the athletes he coached. While working as an adviser to the United States military during World War I , he devised a program to help servicemen become more physically fit. Walter Camp has just developed for the Naval of setting up exercises that seems to fill the bill; a system designed to give

496-559: The game of modern American football. Camp was editor for several sports books published by the Spalding Athletic Library . The dominance of Ivy League players on Camp's All-America teams led to criticism over the years that his selections were biased against players from the leading Western universities, including Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame. Many selectors picked only Eastern players. For example, Wilton S. Farnsworth 's 1910 All-American eleven for

527-849: The head baseball coach at the school from 1904 to 1910, amassing a record of 90–35–12. From 1920 until 1947, Ahearn was the athletic director at Kansas State, during which time the school built Memorial Stadium , the Wildcats home football venue from 1922 until 1967. Ahearn was born on November 28, 1878, in Rotherham , England . He attended Massachusetts Agricultural College, now the University of Massachusetts Amherst , where he lettered in football, basketball, baseball, and ice hockey . Ahearn died on February 5, 1948, in Manhattan, Kansas . Kansas State honored Ahearn's coaching success in 1911 by naming its first on-campus athletic field Ahearn Field . The location

558-541: 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 from the national talks, but worked to Yale's disadvantage relative to rival (and Roosevelt's alma mater) Harvard University , according to Branch. Despite having

589-411: The position for more than one year. He was coach from 1905 until 1910, compiling a record of 39–12. His 39 wins were the most in the history of Kansas State Wildcats football until Bill Snyder passed him in 1995. His winning percentage of .765 is still the highest of any coach in program history. Ahearn was also the head basketball coach at Kansas State from 1906 to 1911, tallying a mark of 28–27, and

620-408: The seating arrangements that eventually reduced seating capacity to 12,220 for the 1987–1988 season, the final season of men's basketball at Ahearn. Ahearn Field House hosted the men's NCAA basketball tournament regional finals six times ( 1953 , 1955 , 1960 , 1962 , 1965 , and 1969 ). It also hosted the national championship match for the 1974 AIAW women's basketball tournament , as well as

651-523: The way in which they permit their football writers to pick 'All-American' elevens. What man in the lot that have picked 'All-American' elevens this fall, saw a single game outside the North Atlantic States? With a conceit all their own they fail to recognize that the United States reaches more than 200 miles in any direction from New York. ... Suppose an Ohio football writer picked 'All-American' teams. Ohio readers would not stand for it. But apparently

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682-517: The years Ahearn has been modified to accommodate a variety of other activities, ranging from additional classroom space to providing venues for other intercollegiate sports such as indoor track and field and volleyball . Ahearn has also hosted NCAA volleyball tournament games four times since 1996. 39°11′20.4″N 96°35′02.5″W  /  39.189000°N 96.584028°W  / 39.189000; -96.584028 Mike Ahearn Michael Francis Ahearn (November 28, 1878 – February 5, 1948)

713-494: Was a British-American athlete and college athletics administrator. Ahearn played and coached American football , basketball , and baseball , and was a college professor and athletic director at Kansas State Agricultural College—now known as Kansas State University . He also helped guide the evolution of the rules of modern football, serving ten years on the college football rules committee (1922–1931), initially under Secretary Walter Camp and alongside Amos Alonzo Stagg . He

744-547: Was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the Linonian Society , and Skull and Bones . He attended Yale Medical School from 1880 to 1883, where his studies were interrupted first by an outbreak of typhoid fever and then by work for the Manhattan Watch Company. Camp worked for the New Haven Clock Company beginning in 1883, working his way up to chairman of the board of directors. In 1873, Camp attended

775-580: Was an American college football player and coach, and sports writer known as the " Father of American Football ". Among a long list of inventions, he created the sport's line of scrimmage and the system of downs . With John Heisman , Amos Alonzo Stagg , Pop Warner , Fielding H. Yost , and George Halas , Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football . He attended Yale College , where he played and coached college football . Camp's Yale teams of 1888, 1891, and 1892 have been recognized as national champions . Camp

806-709: Was born in New Britain, Connecticut , the son of Leverett Camp and Ellen Sophia (Cornwell) Camp. Walter Camp was of English descent. His first immigrant ancestor was the English colonist Nicholas Camp, who came from Nazeing , Essex , England and arrived in colonial New England in 1630, arriving first in Massachusetts and then moving to Connecticut that same year. Walter attended Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven , entered Yale College in 1875, and graduated in 1880. At Yale he

837-785: Was elected as a member of Scroll and Key in 1912, and Janet Camp Troxell (1897–1987). Camp is buried with his wife and children in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven. He was an Episcopalian. Camp served as the head football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892 . In his time with Yale, the team won 67 games and lost just 2 games. He then moved on to Stanford University , where he coached in December 1892 and in 1894 and 1895 . On Christmas Day, 1894, Amos Alonzo Stagg and his University of Chicago Maroons defeated Camp's Stanford team 24–4 at San Francisco in an early intersectional contest. Camp

868-533: Was inadequate for the increasingly popular basketball team. After the Wildcats advanced to the Final Four in 1948 , it was not unheard of for students to climb into the rafters in order to watch the game. Not only was this situation uncomfortable, it was also unsafe. In the late-1940s, the Kansas State Legislature approved the construction of a new and much larger basketball facility, designed to overcome

899-474: Was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach during 1951. Camp wrote articles and books on the gridiron and sports in general, annually publishing an " All-American " team. By the time of his death, he had written nearly 30 books and more than 250 magazine articles. The annual Walter Camp Award is named in his honor, recognizing the best all-around collegiate football player. Camp

930-452: Was on the various collegiate football rules committees that developed the American game from his time as a player at Yale until his death. English rugby football rules at the time required a tackled player, when the ball was "fairly held," to put the ball down immediately for scrummage. Camp proposed at the U.S. College Football 1880 rules convention that the contested scrum be replaced with

961-465: Was selected as a charter member of the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame . Over the years, Ahearn served Kansas State in a variety of roles that included coach, professor, head of the Department of Physical Education, and director of athletics. He is considered the "Father of Kansas State athletics." In 1905, he officially became the tenth head football coach at Kansas State , but was the first to hold

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