“There’s something primitive about football that I like. You get down to the fundamentals, as it were. Football is a war game. You have to plan it like a battle. It requires more brains to play it and develop it than any other game⦔ ~ Former Yale College Football Hall of Fame player Tom Shevlin (1905).
Tom Shevlin – Yale
Outing Magazine
“Great Player Defends Game: Shevlin Talks On Football Situation”.Β Baltimore American. December 25, 1905, via Wikipedia
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