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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: The First "Football Coach"

Timothy P. Brown

Oct 4, 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 a recent Tidbit concerning of “coach” as a word describing a sports instructor and the first person referred to as a football coach.

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Today's Tidbit... The First “Football Coach"

Every element of football terminology originated somewhere at some time. Though we can seldom identify the first time a new word was spoken, they often come to public attention when newspaper reporters use the new words to provide insight to readers…

a year ago · Timothy P. Brown

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