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title: 'Are Foot-Ball Games Educative or Brutalizing?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Ethelbert Dudley Warfield'
date: 1894-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Education'
- 'Athletics and Recreation'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 22'
- 'Ecclesiastes 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/warfield-1894-are-foot-ball-games-educative-or-brutalizing
---

# Are Foot-Ball Games Educative or Brutalizing?

A 1894 review of college football debating whether the sport is educative or brutalizing, weighing physical benefits, serious injuries, academic effects, and moral concerns.

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