“When Theodore Roosevelt Saved Football” tells the tale of when US President Teddy Roosevelt helped football from continuing to be so brutal. The article was written by Bruce Watson and begins with a summary of how football used to be in the early 20th Century. He explains the brutality involved with the sport and how people began to become concerned with the “health risk” that came with playing the sport. Watson then goes on to talk about Teddy and how he was a fan of football and didn’t want it to die out because of these concerns. Roosevelt met with some universities trying to come up with ways to make the sport less lethal. Teddy made it clear he appreciated the brutality of football but still needed it to be less deadly. President Roosevelt