How college football’s deadliest year built the NCAA

A listener emailed the Throughline team with a stunning factoid: Teddy Roosevelt helped create the NCAA to make college football safer. But is it true? What we find is weirder, grislier, and pettier than we expected.Guests:Denis Crawford, historian and exhibit designer at the College Football Hall of FameEric Moyen, Dean of the Bagwell College of Education at Kennesaw State University…