Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Paying Players in the 1920s

Feb 06, 2024

Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a Tidbit from December 2023 concerning college players getting paid or receiving other benefits for being athletes back in the 1920s and 1930s, along with the 1929 Carnegie Report that documented it all.

Click here to listen to the podcast or watch the YouTube version. You can also read the original Tidbit below.

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Today's Tidbit... Paying College Athletes In The 1920s-1930s

Football Archaeology

December 7, 2023

Today's Tidbit... Paying College Athletes In The 1920s-1930s

NCAA President Charlie Baker recently sent a letter to the organization's Division I member schools recommending the creation of a new NCAA tier in which schools pay athletes for representing their college or university. This is not the first time someone has made such a suggestion.

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