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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Signaling a First Down

Timothy P. Brown

Aug 17, 2022

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

Today’s podcast covers a Tidbit from July 14, 2022, Signaling a First Down.

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Today's Tidbit... Signaling A First Down

Until the late 1920s, football did not have consistent referees’ signals to indicate the happenings on the field. Few referees signaled the nature of penalties; other routines differed by individual or region. F. A. Lambert, who often worked Big Ten games, published…

a year ago · Timothy P. Brown

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