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Sanctioned Savagery: A History of Violence in American Football by Michael Oriard

Sanctioned Savagery: A History of Violence in American Football

Michael Oriard

304 pages first pub 2025 (view editions)

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 American football was a violent sport from its beginning as a college game in the 1870s and 1880s, in part because learning how to deal with the pain and violence, to "take it," made men out of college boys. Michael Oriard, former NFL linebacker ...

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