Today's Tidbit... Keeping Score At The Big HouseFootball was first played on college greens and local pastures lacking the simplest creature comforts. However, things improved quickly as the top games moved to polo grounds and professional baseball stadiums with the capacity to seat thousands or tens of thousands.
Today's Tidbit... Gamesmanship, the Big Ten, and the Rose BowlFans today recall the Big Ten, Pac-8/10/12, and Rose Bowl partnership as seventy-plus years of marital bliss, interrupted near the end by outsiders sticking their noses into a place they did not belong. But the relationship was strained at times when one or another of the…
Today's Tidbit... 1903 Purdue Football's Tragic EndThe image above shows an RPPC mailed in 1909 from West Lafayette, IN, to Will Hubbard in Bosler, Wyoming. Mailed by a Purdue student named Ralph, the message asks how things are going in his friends’ new home and mentions that Purdue opens the 1909 season playing at UChicago.
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Eliminating the Second-Half KickoffPigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a recent TidBit about eliminating the second-half kickoff, an idea discussed on multiple occasions by the pre-1940s rules committees, and discuss how the game could look different today. Click here
Football Archaeology
Football Archaeology
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Football Archaeology
Digging into gridiron history to examine how football's evolution shapes today's game.
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