Elements of football history that are part of the rules or occur in games are more accessible to research than more informal parts of football. Teams…
Ordinarily, images of the crowds at football games are interesting because they indicate who attended games and the fashions they wore. The two RPPCs…
Lorin Deland developed the flying wedge, which Harvard showed for the first time in the 1892 Harvard-Yale game. As football was played at the time…
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This is #22 in a series covering football’s original 61 rules adopted by the Intercollegiate Football Association in 1876. We review one rule each…
When the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA) adopted the game's first formal rules in 1876, they adopted rugby's rules with only a few minor…
The official records for Eastern Illinois football show the 1907 team had a 3 - 1 - 3 record, though a recent media guide can identify only three games…
In 1956, NFL teams played six exhibition games and twelve league games, plus the two divisional winners played in a championship game. It seems crazy…
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a recent TidBit about the origins of Six-Man football, which came about during the Depression when…
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