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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Fielding Yost and the First Fake Field Goal

Timothy P. Brown

Apr 19, 2023

Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a recent TidBit about Fielding Yost and his role in pioneering the fake field goal - or not.

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Fielding Yost and the First Fake Field Goal

There is nothing new under football's sun. Many plays, techniques, and concepts are borrowed, recycled, adapted, or reinvented by those unaware someone else already rolled out that invention. Still, everything borrowed or recycled had a beginning, a first use, so the trick is to identify when an idea hatched…

10 months ago · 1 like · Timothy P. Brown

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