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Today's Tidbit... We Get Knox Down, But We Get Up Again
The 1934 Knox College team tied the college football record for most consecutive losses (since beaten) and are the only team to complete a full season…
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The Disappearing Football Coach
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the story of Captain Richard F.
Dec 16
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Video #4 - Football Archaeology Hall of Fame - John Lockney
While the Football Archaeology Hall of Fame videos are typically released to paid subscribers first, Video #4 honors John Lockney and includes an…
Dec 16
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Today’s Tidbit... The Last Leather Helmets
I have a collection of old sporting goods catalogs I use to track the evolution of football equipment.
Dec 13
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Today's Tidbit... Ernest Graves and the Gentlemanly Game
If anyone ever tells you that football was once an honorable game played by honorable men using honorable methods, tell them they don’t know what they…
Dec 13
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Football Chains, The Missing Link
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the invention of football’s chains, which came in 1894, the same year football’s rules added the…
Dec 9
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Video #3 - Football Archaeology Hall of Fame - Lloyd Olds
The Football Archaeology Hall of Fame honors those whose significant contributions to football go unrecognized by traditional halls of fame.
Dec 9
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Today’s Tidbit... Images of Indiana Football Past
I’ve lived 52 of my 68 years in Big Ten country, and this is only the second morning I woke up thinking, “Indiana won the Big Ten football championship…
Dec 7
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Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes: Football Equipment Safety Standards
Football’s early rules said little about the equipment players could or should wear, mainly because players wore only light jerseys, tights, and caps.
Dec 6
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Today’s Tidbit... The Fog of War-Time Football
The 1942 College All-Star game, held at Chicago’s Soldier Field, was much like the eight that preceded it, except that the world was at war, a fact…
Dec 3
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Training in 1923
Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss an book from the 1923 Wilson Athletic series covering conditioning.
Dec 2
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Today's Tidbit... When Airlines Became Central To Football
Until recently, college athletic conferences were regional, mainly due to the limits of transportation technologies.
Dec 1
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