Today's Tidbit... The Highs and Lows of Denver University Football

University of Denver football season ticket mailer for the 1955 season. (Personal collection)

For most people nowadays, the words "Denver" and "football" mean one thing, the Broncos. The gold and brown-clad Broncos were charter members of the American Football League's, suiting up in those hues for another year before switching to the now familiar orange and blue.

Before the Broncos arrived, however, the city's gridiron fans followed the Denver Pioneer University football team when they played in the Skyline Conference along with Utah State, Colorado State, BYU, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Montana. The Pioneers played the equivalent of Group of Five football until they dropped the sport after the 1960 season for financial reasons.