During the late 1870s, American football resembled a combination of soccer and rugby with a riot mob mentality. Almost anything went: Players could carry the ball, kick it, or pass it backward. Starting in 1880, Walter Camp, a Yale player, introduced a series of changes to make the game more strategic.
Unfortunately, some ended up making the game more dangerous. In the 1905 season 18 players died. Another 137 were seriously injured. Then Roosevelt stepped in. On October 9, the president summoned some of the game's most powerful figures for a closed-door meeting at the White House.
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I beg your pardon, but 'football' is the 'King of the sports', the sport played between 2 teams of 11 players with a spherical ball!
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