Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Standardized Player Numbering
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a factoid about a 1940 article by Bob Balfe of the Palm Beach Post. Bob suggested that football players wear numbers corresponding to their positions using a 1 to 11 system. Football did not adopt his suggestion, but the NCAA mandated standardized numbering in 1941 using a system football largely follows today. Of course, an anecdote or two about football numbering gets tossed into the conversation.
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