---
title: 'Football Ruin or Reform'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Ethelbert Dudley Warfield'
date: 1894-12-13
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Children and Youth'
- 'Education'
- 'Character and Conduct of Life'
scriptures:
- 'Deuteronomy 6'
- 'Proverbs 22'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/warfield-1894-football-ruin-or-reform
---

# Football Ruin or Reform

Includes a poem and essays critiquing college football's violence, corruption and professionalism, urging reform to preserve its moral and educational value.

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