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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Football's Oldest Field

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Aug 21, 2024
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Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss the nation’s oldest continuously used football field, located at Wesleyan University. The field had been used for athletics in general, but an alum donated funds in 1897 to enhance it and build stands.

Watch and listen to the discussion on YouTube, hear the podcast, or feel free to read the original Tidbit below.

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Today's Tidbit... America's Oldest Football Field

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Today's Tidbit... America's Oldest Football Field

I wrote about Wesleyan University's football team almost a year ago in the context of future President Woodrow Wilson being the team's faculty advisor and coach in 1888 and 1889. Then, while researching the ocean rowing training methods of coach Howard Reiter

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