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Intercollegiate American Football
In 1905, 19 fatalities in intercollegiate football in the US and a serious injury at Harvard to one Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Teddy Roosevelt calls a summit of all the major colleges and universities in New York City and says he's going to outlaw the game in the US unless they adapt major changes to make the game safer. And this becomes just like back in England, wildly popular. Over the next five to 10 years, it gets more and more codified and formalized amongst the Ivy League. It kind of comes to be seen as this integral part of the college experience. But also still wildly dangerous. There are like deaths, serious injuries, very, very common through this period,.
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