A listener emailed the Throughline team with a stunning factoid: Teddy Roosevelt helped create the NCAA to make college football safer. But is it true? What we find is weirder, grislier, and pettier than we expected.
Guests:
Denis Crawford, historian and exhibit designer at the College Football Hall of Fame
Eric Moyen, Dean of the Bagwell College of Education at Kennesaw State University and author of College Sports: A History
