Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Ringers and Rival Towns in 1921
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a Tidbit from August 2023 concerning two towns in Illinois, Carlinville and Taylorville. Their secret plans to have college ringers play for their town teams are revealed and become a scandal involving the Notre Dame and Illinois football teams.
Click here to listen to the podcast. You can also read the original Tidbit below.
The Carlinville-Taylorville Scandal Of 1921
Under ordinary circumstances, America would not pay attention to a football game played the Sunday after Thanksgiving between Carlinville and Taylorville, Illinois, but the 1921 Carlinville-Taylorville game was extraordinary. Sitting forty-four miles apart, each town had fewer than 6,000 residents, and their semi-pro football teams had become rivals, wi…
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