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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Football Before End Zones

Timothy P. Brown

Jul 12, 2022

Each Tuesday, Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I cover and expand on one of my articles or tidbits. Click here to listen or subscribe to Pigskin Dispatch wherever you get your podcasts.

Today’s podcast covers an article from August 29, 2020, Football Before End Zones.

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Football Before End Zones

Many elements of modern football were not part of the early game. One such feature was the end zone. As strange as it may seem, end zones were not marked on football fields for more than forty years of play, entering the game in 1912 as the rule-makers loosened restrictions on the forward pass…

3 years ago · Timothy P. Brown

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