英语词汇all-american的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	all-american
词源	all-American. Walter Chauncey Camp, “the Father of Amer- ican Football” who formulated many of the game’s rules, picked the first all-American football team in 1889 along with Caspar Whitney, a publisher of This Week’s Sport Magazine. But the idea and designation was Whitney’s and he, not Camp, should be credited with introducing all-American to the American lexicon of sports and other endeavors. See all-star game.
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