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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.
 • Football Archaeology
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…
 • Football Archaeology
Factoid Feast XIX
If the Super Bowl can use Roman Numerals, so can our Factoid Feasts.
 • Football Archaeology
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.
 • Football Archaeology
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.
 • Football Archaeology
Today's Tidbit... J. C. Higgins and Sears Sporting Goods
Who was the J. C. Higgins behind the Sears, Roebuck sporting goods brands?
 • Football Archaeology
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.
 • Football Archaeology
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.
 • Football Archaeology
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?
 • Football Archaeology

January 2026

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