1. College Football Part II - Violence and Brutality in Football Unsurprisingly, the frequency of player injuries, on-campus student violence, and the growing commercialism of the game attracted widespread _____________from __________, ________, and ____________throughout the country. Many university presidents aligned with their faculty members in ________ _________to the place of football on college campuses.

2. Violence and Brutality in Football Led by Harvard University President Charles Elliot (1834–1926), opponents argued that college football ___________the _____of the student body by _______ _________and _________, encouraged habitual violations of the rules, and diverted time from a student's ________and daily life.

3. University of Michigan alumni team 1899 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

4. Violence and Brutality in Football By condemning the game's win-at-all cost commercial spirit and calling for moderation and reform, opponents argued that college football proved __________with the ________ ________ of _ ____________. Some faculty members took their opposition of the college gridiron to the extreme by _________ __________ altogether. In the 1890s alone, schools such as Trinity (later _____), __________, _________, and _________abolished football for varying lengths of time.

5. Violence and Brutality in Football In 1893 even U.S. _______________________ was forced to _______the year's Army-Navy annual football contest due to the game's ______________ ______________. Fearing a student revolt, or simply recognizing the _________of the ________ ________ and ______ ________ associated with the game, university presidents turned a blind eye to the evils of college football.

6. Violence and Brutality in Football Future U.S. President _________ _________ (1858–1919), defended the game on the grounds that it supposedly helped built the necessary __________ and ________needed for a new ________and ________lifestyle. Based on a belief in _______ _________ and its “___________________” ideology, many of the nation's leaders claimed that college football instilled the __________and ________ ________ needed for ________men to ______ themselves, their country, and the _______.

7. Geographical Diffusion of Football From its roots and early development in the prestigious _____ ________ schools of the Northeast, college football spread to every region of the country. Throughout the _______and the ______, college campuses caught football fever. In March 1892 a game between ______and __________even signaled the arrival of football in the ____ ________.

8. Geographical Diffusion of Football ________large and small took up the game in part due to the ______of the ________ _____ and in part as a means by which to emulate the powerful eastern institutions such as ________, _________, and ______. The geographical diffusion of college football led to the development of _______ _______of play.

9. While established _______ _______ relied heavily on their ________, budding _______ ________adopted an ____-_____ _________style. Similar regional differences were witnessed in the ______, where schools developed their game around a ______, _____- __________ brand of attack. The growth of college football throughout the country also led to the establishment of regional conferences, the ____of which was the ________ _________ (predecessor to the Big Ten), established in 1896. Geographical Diffusion of Football

10. The power enjoyed by prestigious Eastern schools such as _____was gradually being threatened, namely by the __________of ________, _________, and ________. Despite the rising democratization of the college game, football remained a predominately _______ _________ in the 1890s. Geographical Diffusion of Football

11. _______ ________ Were in the minority on both college campuses and the college gridiron, although a handful of talented black athletes played on some of the leading college teams in the nation. The most prominent African American player of the day: __________________, a native-born Virginian and son of former slaves, who played for and captained both Harvard University and Amherst College in Massachusetts. African Americans in College Football

12. He was chosen to Walter Camp's prestigious “______-_________” team in 92’ and 93’, and was later named the most dominating “______ _____” of the entire decade. Other prominent black football players included: ________ __________ __________ _______ and ________ ______