Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a recent TidBit about Brown’s 1915 loss to Harvard and their selection to the 1916 Rose Bowl. Click here to listen, or subscribe to Pigskin Dispatch wherever you get your podcasts.

Among others, the Brown team featured Fritz Pollard and Wade Wallace, both of whom had successful football careers after graduation.

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Today's Tidbit... A Bad Loss and a Bonus

The 1915 Brown Bruins were 4-2-1 coming off a victory over Yale, helping Yale earn its first losing season in the forty or so years football had been played, so the boys from Providence had reason to be optimistic heading into their game at Harvard the following week. Led by all-everything Fritz Pollard and future Hall of Fame coach Wallace Wade, the Br…

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