Today's Tidbit... 100 Years of Football: 1900-1905

This is the fourth in a series looking back at “100 Years OF Football,” syndicated cartoons published by Jerry Brondfield and Charles Beck in 1969. Today's version covers the period from 1900 to 1905.

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The 1900s were the most important decade in football’s history. The brutality of the game and resulting deaths led to a demand for change, resulting in critical new rules, most notably, the forward pass, ultimately leading to a dramatically different, wider-open game.

Brief notes follow each cartoon, primarily so their contents are discoverable from an indexing and search perspective. As always, click the images to enlarge...

(Brondfield & Beck, '100 Years Of Football,' Courier-News (Bridgewater, NJ), October 6, 1969.)

The naming of the first All-American team in 1899 and the development of newspaper and magazine sports pages with local and syndicated content increased the focus on the football’s playing and coaching stars.