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Today's Tidbit... Medical and Law School Football Teams
College football barred professional athletes early on but took a bit longer to agree on the other professionals, that is, students in the professional…
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Today's Tidbit... Downfield Punts and Dropkicks
Remnants of football's rugby past remained part of the game for varying amounts of time. For example, Saturday's Tidbit covered the return kick, which…
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Mowing Early Football Fields
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discussed a recent TidBit about how football and other athletic fields were mown and maintained back in the…
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The Long History of Football's Short Pants
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A Brief History of Football's Extra Point
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Today's Tidbit... NFL and College Football Stadiums in 1956
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Hut! Hut! Hike!: Three Yards and A Cloud of Dust
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Today's Tidbit... I-N-D-I-A-N-A and Letters on Back (LOB)
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Today’s Tidbit… The 1918 Case Institute and Western Reserve Seasons
Case Western Reserve in Cleveland resulted from the 1967 consolidation of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University. Now a world-class…
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Today's Tidbit... America Gave Return Kicks The Boot
Among the least remembered tactics in American football history is the return kick, which was little used for fifty or more years before the NCAA…
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Today's Tidbit... Canadian Football Is Open For Business
Today's Tidbit is published early as a public service to those who do not regularly watch the CFL but should. It is a wide-open game featuring five wide…
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Today's Tidbit… IFA Rule #32 Inbounding
This is #32 in a series covering football's original 61 rules adopted by the Intercollegiate Football Association in 1876. We review one rule each…
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Today's Tidbit.. Football's Longest Half-The-Distance Penalty
Football instituted its first half-the-distance penalty in 1889 for intentionally tackling below the knees, butting, tripping, and throttling (choking…
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Today's Tidbit... Football Experiments In the Motor City
Back when the University of Detroit played football, their coach Chuck Baer wanted a deeper understanding of how his Modern T formation offense…
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Disintegrating Football Pants
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discussed a recent TidBit about the evolution of football pants and particularly the transition from…
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Today's Tidbit... Kicking Off With New Hampshire Football
Today we look at the image of the 1928 New Hampshire football team kicking off, covering a few elements of late 1920s football that pop out from the…
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Today's Tidbit... The Battle Of The Bulldogs: Yale vs. Georgia
Yale's reputation as a football power and the shared gate receipts from the massive Yale Bowl allowed the boys in blue to host most of their football…
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