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 ...

In 2023, on the eve of Newcastle United's Carabao Cup final showdown against Manchester United, Dan Burn delivered a moving ...

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

On Jan. 6, 1919, former President Theodore Roosevelt died in ... Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. Roosevelt is even credited with saving football in 1905. A final anecdote: In 1902, Roosevelt ...