The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football

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 19th 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.