From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertrand.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another

edition of the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. On this episode, we'll talk with John Jane Miller from

Hillsdale's Journalism Department about football safety and an attempt to save the sport back in the early

1900s. Kim Strassel from the Wall Street Journal on her book, Resistance at All Costs. Ben

Beyer from Hillsdale's Education Department discusses rhetoric and will hear music and speeches

from the recent dedication of the new Christ Chapel on the campus of Hillsdale College.

First, we're joined now by John J. Miller, Director of the Herbert H. Dow, the second program in American journalism at Hillsdale College.

John, thanks for joining us.

Hi, Scott. Thanks for having me on the show.

We speak now in the middle of football season, the NFL in full action, along with colleges and high schools, campuses around the country.

And still a point of discussion is the violence and the injury potential from playing football.

And it has been for a long time, as we're going to discuss at a moment,

because John has written a book that's been out for a couple of years now called The Big Scrum,

How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football. This goes back, of course, how Teddy Roosevelt saved football.

This goes back, of course, to the early 1900s.

Today's injuries, today's violence, as bad as it seems, is nothing really compared to what it was

well, 120 years ago or so.

No, it's way worse back then.

And it's pretty bad right now.

Concussions are a problem. Long-term health

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