Did you know that people used to die playing football? See how former president Theodore Roosevelt played a large role in adding the forward pass, which changed football forever. 'A Football Life ...

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In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt called a number of American leaders to the White House to discuss a matter of national importance: Football had become too deadly. According to one newspaper ...

So began Theodore Roosevelt’s 1880 Harvard senior thesis ... and saved the game of football. He was shot by a would-be ...