The Big Scrum

How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football

By: John J Miller

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Paperback | 15 November 2018

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John J. Miller delivers the intriguing, never-before-told story of how Theodore Roosevelt saved American Football--a game that would become the nation's most popular sport. Miller's sweeping, novelistic retelling captures the violent, nearly lawless days of late 19^th century football and the public outcry that would have ended the great game but for a crucial Presidential intervention. Teddy Roosevelt's championing of football led to the creation of the NCAA, the innovation of the forward pass, a vital collaboration between Walter Camp, Charles W. Eliot, John Heisman and others, and, ultimately, the creation of a new American pastime. Perfect for readers of Douglas Brinkley's Wilderness Warrior, Michael Lewis's The Blind Side, and Conn and Hal Iggulden's The Dangerous Book for Boys, Miller's The Big Scrum reclaims from the shadows of obscurity a remarkable story of one defining moment in our nation's history.

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"[Miller] is on target with a necessarily selective biography highlighting Roosevelt's lifelong affinity for sports and physical activity, thereby providing context for understanding why a president would devote valuable time to what was then a minor sport. [An] enjoyable history of a seldom-explored turning point in American sports history."--Booklist

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Non-Fiction History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Sports & Recreation Ball Games American Football Biographies & True Stories Biographies Sport Biographies

Introduction: America's Game	p. ix
The Killing Fields	p. 1
Creation Stories	p. 19
Game Time	p. 47
Camp Days	p. 65
The Capacity to Inflict Pain	p. 91
The Virile Virtues	p. 111
Let Them Be Men First	p. 135
Rough Riding.	p. 155
Football Is a Fight	p. 175
The Air War	p. 205
Appendix	p. 223
Acknowledgments	p. 225
Notes	p. 227
Index	p. 247
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How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football

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