@article{348516,
      author = {Miller, John J.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/348516},
      title = {The big scrum : how Teddy Roosevelt saved football /},
      publisher = {HarperCollins,},
      abstract = {The never-before-fully-told story of how Theodore  Roosevelt helped to save the game that would become  America's most popular sport. During the late nineteenth  century, the game of football was a work in progress that  only remotely resembled the sport of today. There was no  agreement about many of the basic rules, and it was  incredibly violent and extremely dangerous. Numerous young  men were badly injured and dozens died in highly publicized  incidents, often at America's top prep schools and  colleges. Objecting to the sport's brutality, a movement of  proto-Progressives tried to abolish the game. President  Theodore Roosevelt, a vocal advocate of "the strenuous  life" and a proponent of risk, acknowledged football's  dangers but admired its potential for building character.  In 1905, he summoned the coaches of Harvard, Yale, and  Princeton to the White House. The result was the  establishment of the National Collegiate Athletic  Association, as well as a series of rule changes that  ultimately transformed football into the quintessential  American game.--From publisher description.},
      recid = {348516},
      pages = {xi, 258 p., [8] leaves of plates :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2011},
}