CSPAN2 How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football February 2, 2014
[laughter] thank you or ill be performing all week at aei. Lets talk about football and Theodore Roosevelt. Id like to start a statistic. In 1905 come et people died playing football. In 1950, 18 people died playing football. Here but the problem. Confessions, head injuries, controversy about today. The challenge is to football faced a little more than a century ago. Lets go back in time. Theodore roosevelt determined his first Football Game. He was an 18yearold freshman at harvard come university. He got on a trade with a bunch of friends and they went to new haven, connecticut with a watch t...
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