History in Hindsight

Yannis Pappas- "Opposition To Football" (1897)


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Comedian Yannis Pappas joins the show to discuss an article from 1897 "The Opposition of Football".  In 1897 college students were dying on the football field, and legislators in Atlanta considered making it illegal.  There was much discussion about how to make football safer... 
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