... there was a bill, the governor was going to sign it. It's all about to happen. And then this poor mother (whose son was killed in a game) wrote in and said please don't ban the game. It's what he thought manliness was all about. And he would just hate that, so don't ban it.
This was in 1897.
I heard the story on NPR over the weekend during an interview with Diane Roberts about her book "Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America".
Note that the Georgia Governor's threat came just four years after the Inaugural Iron bowl in Birmingham, a series that was itself canceled after the 1907 game. It resumed on December 4, 1948.
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