BIG SCRUM PB

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.