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Villanova, Bud Dudley, and the Acme Supermarkets Giveaway
Just as some colleges and universities kept their games from being broadcast by radio in the 1920s due to depressed in-stadium attendance, the same…
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Firing Kansas' Top Coach
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss Kansas and their firing of A.
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Coaches Wearing Their College Letter Sweaters
An interesting aspect of football's past was the wearing of college letter sweaters by coaches and game officials.
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Goal After Touchdown Images from 1887
I wrote recently about potentially using AI-generated images to illustrate elements of early football for which photographs or drawings do not exist.
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Today's Tidbit... Harvard's Jarvis Field
One of the beauties of college football is that campus stadiums largely stay in place.
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The First Nile Kinnick Stadium
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a Tidbit concerning the first Nile Kinnick Stadium, a stadium in Tokyo built for the 1940 Olympics…
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Today's Tidbit... Of Jaw and Chin Straps
Nowadays, the chin straps on football helmets cover the wearer's chin, but that was not so in the past.
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... A Tricky Little Skeet
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a Tidbit concerning Skeets Lambert of Wabash College who brought two innovations to the forward…
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Today's Tidbit... Speaking Loudly and Loudspeakers
Football around 1900 involved two teams playing in close formations, often running the ball up the gut, so much of the game looked like a continuous…
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Today's Tidbit... Inventing the Option/RPO in 1929
There's a first time for everything, and if you want to figure out the first time something occurred, you have to define that something before claiming…
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Factoid Feast XIII
As discussed in Factoid Feasts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, and XII, my searches through football history sometimes lead to topics too…
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Today's Tidbit... Patently Ugly Football Fields
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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