Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss Frank Hering, who Amos Alonzo Stagg claimed threw overhand spirals as far back as 1894. Hering went on to coach and play for Bucknell and Notre Dame before becoming the first to promote the idea behind one of America’s cherished holidays.
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