How Theodore Roosevelt Changed Football

By Daniel Halper
Published September 13, 2011 4:52pm ET
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How Theodore Roosevelt Changed Football
Fred Barnes reviews John J. Miller’s The Big Scrum in the Wall Street Journal: In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt took an unusual step for a president. He tried to reform the way college football was played, and he succeeded. The game became more civilized, less bone-crushingly violent, and much more open, thanks to new rules that […]

Fred Barnes reviews John J. Miller’s The Big Scrum in the Wall Street Journal:

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