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Pigskin Dispatch... Press Boxes and Sideline Communication

Timothy P. Brown
Aug 22, 2023
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Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discussed a recent TidBit about the evolution of press boxes, their use by media personnel, and eventually by assistant coaches acting as spotters. We also cover how press boxes were connected to people on the sideline as early as the 1890s and the later connection of coaches with their counterparts on the sideline.

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Today's Tidbit... Press Boxes and Sideline Communication

Timothy P. Brown
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Jun 25
Today's Tidbit... Press Boxes and Sideline Communication

As baseball and other sports stadium operators sought the coverage and publicity provided by newspapers and magazines in the late 1880s, they offered advantageous, separate seating to reporters. Such areas became known as press box, with the first mentions of press boxes at football games coming at the 1892 Yale-Princeton game at Manhattan Field in New …

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