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Today’s Tidbit... A. W. Briggs, H. R. Briggs, the Y.M.C.A., and Jim Thorpe
How do A. R Briggs, H. R. Briggs, and Jim Thorpe connect? Read the story to find out.
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Who Played In The Midwest’s First College Football Game?
Northwestern (1876) and Michigan (1880) claim to have played the first football game in the Midwest, but neither is true. That honor belongs to another…
Feb 18
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Early AAPI Football Players
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the early history of Asian and Pacific Islander players in American football.
Feb 17
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Today’s Tidbit... Restricting Ineligible Receivers
Football struggled with how to restrict where ineligible receivers could go on the field and what they could do when they got there. But its all better…
Feb 17
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Factoid Feast XIX
If the Super Bowl can use Roman Numerals, so can our Factoid Feasts.
Feb 13
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Honey, I Shrunk The Football Field
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss how football fields came to be 100 yards long and 160 feet wide.
Feb 10
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W. R. Crowley And His 1934 Rule Book
W. R. "Bill" Crowley was a top official of the 1920s and 1930s, when officiating became organized and professional.
Feb 8
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Today's Tidbit... J. C. Higgins and Sears Sporting Goods
Who was the J. C. Higgins behind the Sears, Roebuck sporting goods brands?
Feb 7
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The Most Accomplished Football Team Ever
Yale got the band back together in 1901 to field the most accomplished football team ever.
Feb 3
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1916 Intersectionality: Colgate @ Illinois
In an early intersectional game for both, a small Eastern school battled a Midwestern state school for gridiron glory. One team came out on top.
Feb 3
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Today's Tidbit... The First Touchdown Pass Caught In The End Zone
The 1912 season was the first in which forward passes could be legally caught in the end zone. So, who completed the first TD pass in the end zone?
Feb 2
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January 2026
What If We Dropkicked All Field Goals?
They considered eliminating placekicked field goals in 1898. How would the game differ today if all field goals were dropkicked?
Jan 31
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