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Today's Tidbit.. A Look at Early Incomplete Pass Penalties
A while back, I wrote a Tidbit about the 1920s and 1930s, a time when football penalized incomplete passes, specifically the second, third, and fourth…
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Extra Points and the Changing Game of Football
Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the lowly extra point and how differences in its historical point values tell a larger story about the…
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1909 Chicago Eckersalls vs. St. Louis Cochems
Before there were Lions, Tigers, and Packers roaming Midwestern fields, there were all-star teams of former college players who got together for a few…
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A Hole Big Enough To Drive A Mack Truck Through
I don't know if line coaches still refer to offensive lines opening holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through or to players who are built like Mack…
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Today's Tidbit... When Football Had Bigger Balls
I published A History of the Football last year and will soon publish When Football Came To Pass. The new book covers the first decade of the forward…
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Center Snap Trickeration
Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I cover the issue of snapping between the quarterback’s legs.
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The First Iron Bowl and 1892-1893 Auburn Football Images
Earlier this year, I told the story of the goal after touchdown process in 1887 using a series of images taken during games at Harvard's Jarvis Field.
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Today's Tidbit... 1942 NYC College Football and Conservation Poster
Sometimes you stumble across items that encapsulate a time and its issues.
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First-To-Second Game Improvement aka Daugherty's Law
Most college teams played their first game of the season over the weekend, though a handful played during Week 0.
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Chicago North Division High's Stars of 1904
Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I cover a Tidbit about Chicago North Division High’s collections of stars on their 1904 football team.
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