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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Herb Dana and the Associated Football Question Box

Timothy P. Brown

Sep 6, 2022

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

Today’s podcast covers recent Tidbits about Herb Dana and other officials / journalists of football’s earlier eras: Herb Dana and the Associated Football Question Box

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Today's Tidbit… Herb Dana and the Associated Football Question Box

Frank Birch, who invented the penalty signals referees perform during football games, was scheduled to referee the 1929 Rose Bowl but tore a knee ligament two weeks before the game and had to step aside. Herb Dana replaced him in that role, resulting in Dana being the one who spotted the ball following the infamous run by Wrong Way Reigels. (California's Roy Riegels had picked up Georgia running back Stumpy Thomason's fumble, got turned around, and ran the ball toward his own end zone before being stopped by teammates inside the one-yard line…

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