1. John Sayle Watterson, The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the Presidency (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), p. 37.
2. Guy M. Lewis, “Theodore Roosevelt’s role in the 1905 football controversy,” Research Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 4 (December 1969): 719.
3. Ibid.: 719.
4. Theodore Roosevelt, “Functions of a Great University,” June 28, 1905, A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, Vol. 1, ed. by Alfred Henry Lewis (Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1906), p. 644.
5. Watterson, The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the Presidency, p. 54.