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Today’s Tidbit... Before Uniforms Were Uniform
Earlier this year, I wrote that teams once wore uniforms that were not always uniform, and went on to discuss and show images of teams with the…
Oct 29
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Pop Warner and the Bizarro World of Early Forward Passing
Dickinson College is not a place you’d think of as a source of information on football history.
Oct 28
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... When Football Came To Pass
Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss my new book, When Football Came To Pass. We have a good time discussing several stories from the book…
Oct 28
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Today’s Tidbit... Lighting A Fire Under Your Team
We often describe football teams as fired up, sometimes as burned out, but we use those terms analogously, not literally.
Oct 26
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Women’s Panties, a 4th String QB, and the 1939 Rose Bowl
Few teams play the entire regular season without being scored on, but the 1939 Duke Blue Devils were such a team.
Oct 23
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Gridiron Greats Podcast: When Football Came To Pass
Gridiron Greats magazine publisher Bob Swick and his partner in crime, Joe Squires, and I discussed my newest book, When Football Came To Pass. Bob and…
Oct 23
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Today’s Tidbit... The Oliphant in the Room
Many football plays depend on misdirection or change of direction, and so does this story.
Oct 21
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Football's Big Balls
Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the size of early footballs, how and why the size changed over time, and how those changes impacted the…
Oct 21
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Today’s Tidbit... Football’s First Chains Revisited
When I started publishing Football Archaeology, most articles were only a few paragraphs long.
Oct 15
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Auburn's First Team, In Pictures
Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the Auburn’s first football team, the first Iron Bowl, and related images that reveal elements of how…
Oct 14
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Today’s Tidbit... The Once Great Spalding J5-V
It’s funny how things work out.
Oct 11
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Today’s Tidbit... Pfizer’s Medical All-American Football Team
A reader, Christopher Haack, alerted me to a unique All-American football team named by the editors of Pfizer’s Spectrum, a journal targeted at…
Oct 10
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