1905年10月,美国总统西奥多·罗斯福刚刚调解完全国矿工大罢工和日俄战争,又把精力转移到处理橄榄球纠纷上来。他把最先开展橄榄球运动的哈佛、耶鲁和普林斯顿大学的代表召到一起,研究如何解决橄榄球比赛中的粗野行为和缺乏体育道德等问题。毕业于哈佛大学的罗斯福是个橄榄球迷。他认为橄榄球可以锻炼人的性格。在比赛中,一定程度的粗野不仅是必要的,而且值得赞许。他曾说,我不赞成“把青年人裹在棉絮当中。”“有些人看不到他们在比赛中那种 In October 1905, the President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, just mediated the strike of the entire country’s miners and the Russo-Japanese War and shifted his focus to tackling football disputes. He called representatives from Harvard, Yale and Princeton who first started rugby to study how to tackle the rugby practices in rugby matches and the lack of sportsmanship. Roosevelt, a graduate of Harvard, is an American football fan. He thinks rugby can train people’s character. In the game, a certain degree of shaggy is not only necessary but also commendable. He said I did not favor “wrapping young people in the batt.” "Some people do not see what they are playing