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why did future president theodore roosevelt promote sports like boxing, weightlifting, and martial arts beginning in the 1890s?

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Due to deaths and brutality of college footballs, president roosevelt hosted two white house conferences on football in 1905, which had Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

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