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President Roosevelt tells Sydney B. Jacobs that he would like to see a variety of different games and sports played at a collegiate level, including football and rugby.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-12
Edgar Pomeroy of the Barbarian Club discusses rugby football in California. The Club has arranged exhibitions of the sport to promote its adoption by universities and is willing to come to the University of California. If so, Pomeroy requests a monetary guarantee to cover travel expenses.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-18
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California, enumerates why rugby football is better for academic use than the American intercollegiate game.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-18
President of Stanford University Jordan shares the advantages of solving the football problem by returning to rugby with President of the University of Wisconsin Van Hise. He argues such changes make the game less dangerous and more interesting, although two more alterations in gameplay are necessary. Jordan further discusses the game.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-03
In an address before the Cambridge Union at Cambridge University in England, Theodore Roosevelt talks about two kinds of success: the success that belongs to the very few who can be qualified as geniuses and the success that is open to everyone else if one tries very hard and very often to develop one’s talents. Roosevelt also touches on the historic ties between his alma mater, Harvard University, and Cambridge, and he talks about the need to reform American football and make it more like the game of rugby.
A photograph of Roosevelt speaking with the Mayor of Texline, Texas, supplements the text.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1910-05-26