The Time Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
by Greg Volk After 18 players die on the field of force , the Chief Executive decide it was fourth dimension to exchange the biz . During the belated 1870s , American “ infantry ball ” resembled a combining of soccer and rugby with a bacchanal pack mentality . Almost anything depart : Players could carry the ball , sound off it , or pass it backward . Starting in 1880 , Walter Camp , a Yale player now known as the father of American football , introduced a series of change to make the game more strategic ....