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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Early Big Fellas

Timothy P. Brown

Mar 28, 2023

Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a recent TidBit about some of the larger men who played football before WWI, particularly a 412-pound high schooler from New Hampshire.

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Today's Tidbit... Football's Heaviest Player Pre-WWI

During the first eighty or ninety years of football, the linemen were often the same size as the backs, though there were occasional guards like Pudge Heffelfinger, who carried 210 pounds while playing at Yale from 1888 to 1891. Pudge's size was legendary, in part, due to pairing it with tremendous mobility…

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