Teddy Roosevelt: “Brutality in playing a game should awaken the heartiest and most…”

On the recordJune 27, 1905

Brutality in playing a game should awaken the heartiest and most plainly shown contempt for the player guilty of it.

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Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Alumni Dinner of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Brutality in playing a game should awaken the heartiest and most plainly shown contempt for the player guilty of it.”