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Army and Navy played football against one another for the first time in 1890 on The Plain at West Point. Navy first played football in 1879, generally…
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The war ended three months before, shortly before the football season began, and the country was starting to return to its civilian footing. Companies…
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The outcomes of this weekend's game determined various conference champs and the bowl destinations for every team fortunate to continue playing…
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While Jim Thorpe called him the greatest football player ever, Eddie Mahan is today known only to football history nerds. A three-time All-America at…
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A team wearing winged helmets plays in the Big Ten Championship game tonight. That team, which goes unnamed by people in Ohio, began wearing their…
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In the runup to the 100th anniversary of Rose Bowl Stadium’s opening, Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes begins a series of forty podcasts with…
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Football teams have always been style conscious, though their preferred uniform materials and designs have changed quite a bit. Footballers wore light…
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This is #7 in a series covering football’s original 61 rules adopted by the Intercollegiate Football Association in 1876. We review one rule each…
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Bremerton Naval Yard, now the Puget Sound Navy Shipyard, has been a significant ship construction and repair facility since the 1890s. Like most…
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In the runup to the 100th anniversary of Rose Bowl Stadium’s opening, Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes begins a series of forty podcasts with…
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Huron College in Huron, South Dakota, closed in 2005, but 97 years earlier, they put a football team on the field. With 290 students, about twenty…
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Darin Hayes of the Pigskin Dispatch podcast was kind enough to have me on his show to talk about my new book, Hut! Hut! Hike! The History of Football…
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