Theodore Roosevelt Saved Football In the article "When Theodore Roosevelt Saved Football" Bruce Watson described how then President Roosevelt helped facilitate negations which inevitably help save football from oblivion. During the early part of the 1900s football resembled a crude form of rugby with a prison riot mentality. By the fall of 1905 football was in peril of being banned due to an alarming uptrend in injuries and deaths from the encouragement of violent play calling, and the lack the of strict regulations. The number of injuries increased due to the illusion of safety from inadequate protective equipment and no forward pass. The broken bones, concussions and even death from this weekly gladiator style of football put the game
