How Did American Football Influence Popular Culture

This article “When Theodore Roosevelt Saved Football” by Bruce Watson is mainly to inform readers about how Theodore Roosevelt influenced and saved the once-endangered sport American football by making it safer. The author begins by comparing American football today to football in the past as deadly. The author states that in today’s American football it is known for causing fewer injuries and least lethal, however, during Roosevelt’s time the players sustained more injuries and deaths due to minimal protective equipment and momentum plays. Watson mentions Roosevelt’s proposal about the pros and cons of football at meetings with college coaches and athletic directors. The meetings were postponed due to football’s scrutiny of violence.

In his historical article “When Theodore Roosevelt Saved Football”, Bruce Watson evaluates the brutality that often occurred in 20th century football and how Theodore Roosevelt influenced the safety procedures currently enforced in modem day competition. Although being respected by the 26th president, Roosevelt himself was never an active football player; however, he was influenced by his respect for the game and his own son’s lethal experiences who was knocked unconscious. At the time, Injuries had been occurring at alarming rates with a total of 45 men dying at the hands of fans entertained by foul play. Major institutions including Harvard, Yale, and Princeton were split between pro and anti-factions against the sport. Consequently, Roosevelt

In “When Theodore Roosevelt Saved Football,” Bruce Watson (2011) was trying to express the influence that Roosevelt had on the way college football was played in 1905 and still stands to how it is played today. While Roosevelt was serving his first term in office, 45 athletes died when playing the sport at either their high school or college football fields due to the fact that the rules and the uniforms of the game were much more casual than they are today. Before he became involved with the sport there were pro and anti-football groups developing at the nation’s leading football colleges; Yale, Princeton, and Harvard. After that, Roosevelt had heard that the sport was becoming endangered by the magazine McClure. Then shortly after, Roosevelt’s

Every game played caused more casualties and 45 young men died on college or high school gridirons before Roosevelt intervened. The 1900’s people disliked how football was played and tried to shut it down. McClure’s magazine was one of those people who saw football as nothing but a ruthless sport without any regards to the rules. After this article Roosevelt saw how a big issue football was without

Bruce Watson, author of “When Theodore Roosevelt Saved Football,” explored the impact that the former president, Theodore Roosevelt had on football. One of the main objectives of the author was to inform the reader about how the game of football was different compared to the way we play the game today. The author, “Bruce Watson” went deep into detail about how injuries to players were occurring at alarming rates. Football today stands accused of causing brain damage and spinal injuries, but football in Roosevelt’s time was often lethal. Players wore flimsy padding and leather helmets. Every game saw several players carried unconscious from the field. During Roosevelt’s time 45 young men died playing college or high school football. Theodore

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The NFL was founded on September 17, 1920 and was known as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). It was renamed in 1922 as the National Football League or NFL. In 1920 there were eleven football franchises to form the first professional football league compared to the 32 teams that form the league now. The original teams are: Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Tigers, Dayton Triangles, Akron Professionals, Rochester (N.Y.) Jeffersons, Rock Island Independents, Muncie Flyers, Decatur Staleys, Chicago Cardinals, and Hammond Pros. Jim Thorpe was elected as the league's first president. In 1970 NFL's rival league AFL merged their schedules and formed two conferences in which the AFL became AFC and NFL became NFC.

In the fall of 1905, there were numerous incidents that caused late President Theodore Roosevelt to intervene. On October 9th, Roosevelt held a meeting at the White House along with coaches and athletic directors from Harvard, Yale and Princeton criticizing the games brutality and dirty plays in Ivy League games. As time went by, two separate committees held a meeting to consider rule changes merging them into the Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in which we know today as (NCAA) making changes to save football. By the fall of 1906, another season had begun and the game became modernized. Within a year, football gained its recognition as part of an American Institution following years forward not only as a Professional Sport but also, entertainment

In the United States, American football is a very popular past time for people of many demographics. People all over the country are exposed to the game not only on television, but also with the opportunity to participate in recreational football, high school football, college football, and in some cases, professional football. The National Football League (NFL) attracts on average 17.6 million views per game. With this much popularity, the NFL is also under constant watch with every decision the League makes. Football is a rough, contact sport which results in inevitable injuries.

During the early 20th century college football played a bad role and influence on American culture by diminishing a good college education. I oppose the role that college football had on American culture because it took away from the main purpose of going to college, which was getting a good education for most Americans. Since the US was involved in World War 1, many veterans came back to the US with no jobs. College coaches were exploiting veterans by concentrating on making their team better rather than wanting them to focus on an education, so that they could get a good job in the future.

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It all started in 1920 with the fourteen-league American Professional Football Association. The league broke into two competing rivals, the National Football League

In order to truly appreciate the overall beneficial influence football has had on American culture between the 1890’s and 1930’s, we cannot turn a blind eye to the negative obstacles football has overcome. In the early years of development, football was played similarly to rugby and universities played by different rules, making standardization within the sport a difficult task to accomplish. One of the major problems observed during the infancy of football was the sheer violence witnessed on the field. Mass play was the common play style during the first years of football in which the entire offensive force would focus on one spot of the defense; the offense was determined to go through the defense rather than go around them. The raw power behind these plays lead to serious injuries as well as the death of a player in the early 1900’s. This disastrous event deterred numerous universities from playing football out of fear of a repeat of events. Following more serious injuries

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