This book is mostly based on how football became a sport, and many of the great people of this sport. The sport of football was always a fun activity. The first football game ever played was on November 6, 1869. It became an actual league sport in 1905 when Theodore Roosevelt called a meeting with all of the football colleges. Although before this meeting people would play anyway. Later in 1906 rules were set for the game. The game became safer for all of the players. Fourteen years later in 1920 the National Football League (NFL) was created. The first footballs were made of a blown up pig bladder. Today they are made from rubber. The first players didn’t have helmets or pads like we do now. All they had was a leather
