On the Pigskin Dispatch Podcast, Darin Hayes and I discuss the Continental Football League of the 1960s, which was similar to the UFL and other minor leagues that have popped up from time to time. If you thought the NFL-AFL merger was interesting, the CFL combined the remnants of several leagues before folding.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the pre-1900 rule that awarded teams a first down when they lost 10 yards, and a few years later when losing 20 yards. Those were crazy days, and we cover the craziness.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss Tulsa’s 1943 football team and its assortment of freshmen and 4-F players who were good enough to reach the Sugar Bowl.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss Oklahoma’s 1970 football staff, as talented a crew as you will find, but many were ethically challenged.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss West Point’s Ralph W. Drury, who wore football’s first documented head harness. Largely unknown and previously unidentified, his contributions to football are now revealed.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the dumbest NFL draft picks ever, courtesy of the Washington Redskins, who managed to make terrible first round picks two years in a row.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss preseason training camps of the past, particularly those of the AAFC teams in 1946 and 1947. We focus on the tactics towns used to attract these training camps, including how Two Rivers, Wisconsin, stood the tallest of all.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss Jim Thorpe’s appearance in a terrible movie and the list of Heisman Trophy winners who dropkicked in a college or NFL game.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss when British rugby players tried convincing American footballists to play their grand game rather than the heathen alternative developing in America.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss why the 1905 Army-Navy game moved from Philadelphia to Princeton, why it returned in 1906, and what became of two key decision makers.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss how the markings on football fields changed over time, particularly the numbers that identify the locations on the field.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the life and times of Eddie Eagan, a sometime Yale football player who won gold medals in the Summer and Winter Olympics.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss Gene Roberts’ career, a player who set a record or three that may never be broken, having led the NCAA, NFL, and the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (Canada East pre-CFL) in scoring in particular seasons.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the origins of pass defenses, and specifically, whether man-to-man or zone defense came first. The answer might surprise you.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss why end zones were first decorated in 1927, the originator of one design, and his younger brother, who made another important contribution to the game. The younger brother also played in a game against Carlisle in 1912, which is how Jim Thorpe literally enters the picture.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the origins of football’s doinks, and the posters that preceded it. We cover the use of the work doink in American newspapers up to the point the John Madden applies it to kicked balls hitting the goal posts and bouncing the wrong way.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the first Midwestern football game, which differs from the story as normally told. The Chicago Football Club, comprised largely of English immigrants, played college teams beginning in 1875, but you likely will not guess which school they played.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the first TD pass into the end zone, which followed rule changes in 1912. Several games in New England were candidates, but only one included a confirmed pass over the goal line.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss a 1939 game during which Notre Dame switched jerseys at halftime. We cover the history of jersey colors, why the color traditions and rules changed, and Darin’s possible role in a high school rule change.

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