With the Kelce brothers opposing one another in Super Bowl LVII, we'll look this week at a few brother combinations that played a part in football’s history. In early football, teams had one captain. Opposing captains met before games to "toss-up," deciding which team would kick off. By the early 1900s, referees took charge of the coin-flipping process, so W. G. Crowell, the referee of the 1920 Princeton-Yale game, met Tim and Mike Callahan at midfield. As Heywood Broun described the process the next day:
Today's Tidbit... When Captains Callahan Collide
Today's Tidbit... When Captains Callahan…
Today's Tidbit... When Captains Callahan Collide
With the Kelce brothers opposing one another in Super Bowl LVII, we'll look this week at a few brother combinations that played a part in football’s history. In early football, teams had one captain. Opposing captains met before games to "toss-up," deciding which team would kick off. By the early 1900s, referees took charge of the coin-flipping process, so W. G. Crowell, the referee of the 1920 Princeton-Yale game, met Tim and Mike Callahan at midfield. As Heywood Broun described the process the next day: