What the heck’s a scrum?
Theodore Roosevelt saw his first game of football in 1876, when, as a freshman his alma mater, Havard, played arch rival Yale. From that first encounter, he developed a life-long interest in the game, admiring its potential for building character. But the game at the time was brutish and dangerous, where severe player injuries and deaths were commonplace. [...]
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