Today's Tidbit... Punting Early And Often
One of the challenges in researching football history -or any other form of history- is putting yourself back in their times since their knowledge and assumptions differed from ours. This morning, I was reminded of that issue while reading a George Brooke article from 1896.
Brooke was a player and coach during football's first half-century and may have been second only to Walter Camp for the number of syndicated newspaper articles he authored during those years.
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