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How US football became so violent: Part 1

US colleges modeled the rules for what became US football on several versions of soccer and rugby that were imported from England. ...

How did Manly Excercises come to us colleges?

To understand how sports became such an important part of US colleges, we have to turn to England. Historian Richard Holt explores the...

Death and football in1905

The NCAA was borne out of a profound crisis in football. At that time, football rules were very different from today. In the 1880s Yale’s...

Sports in colleges: same as it ever was

Today we read about the recommendations of former Secratary of State Condoleeza Rice, who was asked by the NCAA to chair a Commission on...

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