Big Scrum

<p>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 19<sup>th</sup> 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 <em>Wilderness Warrior</em> Michael Lewis's <em>The Blind Side</em> and Conn and Hal Iggulden's <em>The Dangerous Book for Boys</em> Miller's <em>The Big Scrum </em>reclaims from the shadows of obscurity a remarkable story of one defining moment in our nation's history. </p>