(Football College,Guangzhou Sport University,Guangzhou 510500,China) Abstract: The issue of understanding the nature of campus football is the basic issue of campus football, the primary issue of people understanding campus football and participating in its practice; based on materialistic dialectics as methodological guidance, and via the examination of the history of international and domestic campus football, the au-thor confirmed that countries all over the world had been considering campus football as a way of students playing and competing, a content of school physical education, also an important constituent part of extracurricular cultural life; via expert survey, coupled with the examination of the school physical education system in China and its ideology, the au-thor included “school education content” into the definition of the nature of campus football, doing so not only con-forms with the basic logic of defining the nature of things, but also can guide the practice of campus football in China more effectively; via the analysis of the nature of campus football, its connection to practice, and the relationship be-tween campus football and school education, the author corrected the deviation of our previous understanding of cam-pus football, so as to provide support for building a scientific campus football theory system, also to provide method guidance for campus football theory research to connect to practice better. Key words: campus football;school education;quality education |