Sitemap - 2022 - Football Archaeology
Today's Tidbit… 1876 IFA Rule #11: Scrimmage
Today's Tidbit... A Picture-Perfect Day at Marietta
Today's Tidbit... Waiting On The Sidelines
Today's Tidbit... Jim Thorpe Kicks from the Sideline
Today's Tidbit... The 1921 San Diego East-West Christmas Classic
Today's Tidbit... Favorite Tidbits of 2022
Today's Tidbit... George Allen, Weighted Footballs, and Special Teams
Today's Tidbit… 1876 IFA Rule #10: Tackle
Today's Tidbit... Charles Gill, 1889 All America
Today's Tidbit... Polio and NC State's Rapid Response
Today's Tidbit... The 1935 Version Of Instant Replay
Today's Tidbit... Marquette's Top Football Players
Today's Tidbit... Expand It and They Will Come
Today’s Tidbit… From The Bubbly To The Bulge
Today's Tidbit… 1876 IFA Rule #9: Touchdown
Today's Tidbit... Class Football Team Jerseys
Today's Tidbit... Getting A Head Of The Game
Today's Tidbit... Purdue's New Football Coacher
Today's Tidbit... Losing Yards For First Downs
Today's Tidbit... 1889 Yale-Princeton @ Berkeley Oval
Today's Tidbit... Along the Sidelines
Today's Tidbit… 1876 IFA Rule #8: Dead Ball
Today's Tidbit...1957 Special Train to Philadelphia for Army-Navy
Today's Tidbit... Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis
Today's Tidbit... 1890 Army-Navy Game
Televising the 1945 Army-Navy Game
Today's Tidbit... The Big Ten's First Conference Championship Game (in 1931)
Today's Tidbit... Eddie Mahan and Backfield Play
Today's Tidbit... Variations on the Winged Helmet Theme
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: The 1920 Rose Bowl
Today's Tidbit... From Canvas to Wool
Today's Tidbit… 1876 IFA Rule #7: Scoring
Today's Tidbit... Idaho's Spread Formation of 1908
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: The 1919 Rose Bowl
Today's Tidbit... 1908 Huron College Football
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Hut! Hut! Hike! Release
Today's Tidbit... Getting A Kick Out Of The Second Half
Hut! Hut! Hike! Has Been Published!
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: The 1918 Rose Bowl
Today's Tidbit… 1876 IFA Rule #6: Goal ≠ Punt
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: The 1916 Rose Bowl
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: The First Rose Bowl
Today's Tidbit... Low Volume and Percentage Passing in the 1930s
Today's Tidbit... Rivalry Games and the Dodd Family
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: A Century of Rose Bowls
Today's Tidbit... Warner and the Inexperienced Cornell Eleven
Today's Tidbit... Iowa State @ Drake on Thanksgiving Day 1908
Today's Tidbit... 1914 Case @ Mt. Union
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Davey O'Brien and the 1938 Heisman
Today's Tidbit... Wisconsin-Minnesota and Bobby Marshall
Gridiron Greats Podcast: Hut! Hut! Hike!
Today's Tidbit... Football Advertising Postcards and Time Travel
Today's Tidbit... Football at the Kentucky School for the Blind
Today's Tidbit... Fred Folsom and the Bucking Strap
Today's Tidbit… 1876 IFA Rule #5: Goal
Today's Tidbit... Cornell Dances in the Streets
Today's Tidbit... The Canadian Rugby / Football Pants Mystery
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: The 1965 AFL Redshirt Draft
A Subscriber Offer for Hut! Hut! Hike!
Today's Tidbit... Punting Early And Often
Today's Tidbit... Plainfield Teachers College's Dream Season
Today's Tidbit... Getting to Know Willis C. Edson
Today's Tidbit… 1876 IFA Rule #4: Goal
Today's Tidbit... Thou Shalt Not Scalp
Today's Tidbit... Two Platoon Or Not Two Platoon?
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: The Reverse Center
Today's Tidbit... The Ugliest Uniforms Ever
Today's Tidbit... When Harvard Rained Supreme
Today's Tidbit... American Football in 1946 Germany
Today's Tidbit... Fairmount Football and the 1905 Experimental Game
Today's Tidbit… 1876 IFA Rule #3: Punt
Today's Tidbit... Grasping A Horned Frog's Face Mask
Today’s Tidbit… Cal & Stanford's First Big Game in Spring 1892
Today's Tidbit... Football, Corn Flakes, and Big Band Music
All Aboard for Loyola Chicago Football
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Coe College's Point-A-Minute Team
Today's Tidbit... Walter Camp's California Adventures
Today's Tidbit... The Battle between Plastic and Leather Helmets
Today's Tidbit... A Game for the Aged
Today's Tidbit… 1876 IFA Rule #2: Place Kick
Terminology... The Granddaddy of Them All
Today's Tidbit... The 1947 Navy Day Football Game
Today's Tidbit... John Heisman and the Prolate Spheroid
Today's Tidbit... The 1909 Mount Allison Academy Spares
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Before Points-Based Scoring
Today's Tidbit... Army's Lonesome End
Today’s Tidbit… Standing Tall for the Heisman
Today's Tidbit... A Referee's 80-Year-Old Boner
Today's Tidbit… 1876 IFA Rule #1: Drop Kick
Today's Tidbit... Grinnell's Diamond Jubilee and The Virginian
1950 Florence State Football Opponents
Today's Tidbit... A Vince Lombardi What If
Today's Tidbit... The AFL's 1965 Redshirt Draft
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Bad Loss for 1915 Brown and a Bonus
Today's Tidbit... College Football and Money in 1880
Today’s Tidbit… A Series Covering Football’s Original Rules
Today's Tidbit... A Chill In The Air
Terminology... Rouge, Safety, and Touchback
Today's Tidbit... Gerald Ford Coulda Been A Packer
Today's Tidbit... Seeing The Future In 1933
Today's Tidbit... The Sideline and Center Line
Today's Tidbit... Halftime Serpentines Get Your Goat
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: All American: The Power of Sports
Today's Tidbit... Oregon State's Scoreboard
Today's Tidbit... Another Sideline Play
Today's Tidbit... M is for Moline
Today's Tidbit... Offsetting Offside Penalties
Today's Tidbit... The First Two-Platoon All-American Team
Today's Tidbits... 1894 Footballists and Their Armor
Today's Tidbit... Fort Ord Takes On The NFL - Twice
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: The First "Football Coach"
Today's Tidbits... Dropping Out: University of Detroit Titans Football
Today's Tidbit... Accessorizing in 1940
Today's Tidbit... Looking Cool with the Gang
Today's Tidbit... Canadian Football’s Big Turnaround
Terminology... Basic Fundamentals
Today's Tidbit... Bullhorns and Blankets
Today's Tidbit... Stars of Yesteryear
Today's Tidbit... The Last Heisman Winner without a Face Mask
Innovation or Oddity? The Reverse Center
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Ripley's Thoughts on Football
Today's Tidbit... The Original Bunch Formation
Today's Tidbit... The Man from Mars
Today's Tidbit... When Ohio Stadium Was Framed
College Football Yearbook Art in Uni Watch
Today's Tidbit... Eddie Dooley's 1936 All-America Team Contest
Today's Tidbit... Vanderbilt Tricks LSU
Today's Tidbit... Flopping On Field Goals
Today's Tidbit... Clemson’s 1951 Dream Team Platoons
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Transitioning from Leather to Plastic
Today's Tidbit... NFL and College Football Stadiums in 1956
Today's Tidbit... You Can't Top This Logo
Today's Tidbit... Coe College’s Point-A-Minute Team of 1914
Today's Tidbit... Dummies and Blocking Aprons
Today's Tidbit... Football’s Other Meatpacker
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Loudspeakers and Lights
Today's Tidbit... When Ohio State Lacked Balls
Today's Tidbit... Key Formations of 1957
Today's Tidbit... All American: The Power of Sports
Today's Tidbit... Lou "The Toe" Groza Has His Tape Snipped
Today's Tidbit... Football Officials and Highballs
Today's Tidbit... Football Before Points-Based Scoring
Today's Tidbit... Dressing Up for the Queen and Game
Today's Tidbit... University of Denver Football and Artwork
Today's Tidbit... Buchtel's Undefeated Team of 1894
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Herb Dana and the Associated Football Question Box
Today's Tidbit... Three Things I Learned Today
Today's Tidbit... The Glory That Was Archbold Stadium
Today's Tidbit... Football in Full Swing
Today's Tidbit... A Bad Loss and a Bonus
Today's Tidbit... Going Pro in Something Other Than Football
1951 and College Football's First National Television Contract
Today's Tidbit... Punt One for the Gipper
Today's Tidbit... The First “Football Coach"
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: The Evolution of Shoulder Pads
Today's Tidbit... Widening the Gridiron
Today Tidbit... Curmudgeons and Cheerleaders
Terminology... Gang Tackle and Oskie
Today's Tidbit... Dick Tamburo and Cup Protection
Today's Tidbit... An Ode to the Big Boys
Today's Tidbit... Fritz Crisler, Winged Helmets, and Tearaway Jerseys
Today's Tidbit... Speak Loudly and Use a Big Megaphone
The Good Old Days of Sideline Gear
Today's Tidbit... Army Runs Along the Touch-Line
60+ Years of College Football Conference Realignment
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Stripes on the Ball
Today's Tidbit... Blocking Without Hands
Today's Tidbit... The 1920s Stadium Boom and Those Never Built
Today's Tidbit... Things You Don't See Anymore
Today's Tidbit... Bobby Dodd Kicks The Tires On Trailers
The Good Old Days of Sideline Gear
Today's Tidbit... The Kangaroo Kicker Had Some Punch
Today's Tidbit... Bert Bell’s Fashion Choices
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Signaling a First Down
Today's Tidbit... Ripley’s Thoughts on Football, Believe It or Not
Today's Tidbit... The Great Helmets in a Row Mystery
Today's Tidbit... Rawlings Safe-T-Vue Face Protectors
Today's Tidbit... Ozzie Simmons, Ronald Reagan, and Floyd of Rosedale
Today's Tidbit... Alternate Jerseys in 1935
Today's Tidbit... Vermont's Centennial Field
Today's Tidbit... Volunteering For A Clipping
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: The 1930s and Football’s Ugliest Uniforms
Today's Tidbit... Transitioning from Leather to Plastic
Today's Tidbit... Lee Corso During His Game Days
Today's Tidbit... Backing Both Blues
Today's Tidbit... Nine Men in the Box
Today's Tidbit... The 1876 Harvard-Yale Game
Today's Tidbit... Alternative Snapping Techniques
Today's Tidbit... 1917 Study: Football's Impact on Health and Life
Today's Tidbit... Making A Hash Of It
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Bobby Layne's Position Switch
Today's Tidbit... Wasting Two Downs
Today's Tidbit... The NFL's First Face Mask?
Terminology... Signals, Cadence, and More
Today's Tidbit... Loudspeakers and Lights
Today's Tidbit... Army's Eligibility Standards
Today's Tidbit... Toledo's Doc Spears Sees The Future
Today's Tidbit... Punting Is A Snap
Terminology... Goal Line Stand
Today's Tidbit... An Early Football Visor
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Lockney Lines
Today's Tidbit... Keeping in Touch When Away
Today's Tidbit... Something's Missing
Today's Tidbit... A Word on Helmets
Remembering John Lockney: Football’s Forgotten Man
Today's Tidbit: The Polka Dot Umpire
Today's Tidbit... The Evolution of Shoulder Pads, Part III
Conference Realignment and College Football's Good Old Days
Today's Tidbit... 1930s Defensive Line Drills
Today's Tidbit... Football and Water
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Football's First Scoop and Score
Today's Tidbit… Herb Dana and the Associated Football Question Box
Today's Tidbit... The 1908 Olympics and Oxygen Use in Football
Today's Tidbit... Jim Brown's Transparency
Today's Tidbit... Allen Parr, Man From Mars
Terminology... Football Coach, Offensive Line, and Offensive Line Coach
Today's Tidbit... Signaling A First Down
Today's Tidbit... Everlast Football Gear
Today's Tidbit ... White, Yellow, and Striped Footballs
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Football Before End Zones
Today's Tidbit... The Evolution of Shoulder Pads
Today's Tidbit... My Four Sons
Today's Tidbit... Anything But A Zero
Terminology... Lateral and Handoff
Today's Tidbit... Kicker Tricks Is A Dirty Business
Today's Tidbit... Sweet Southern Tee
Today's Tidbit... Read and React
Terminology... Pass, Forward Pass, Complete, Uncomplete, Incomplete, and Incompletion
Today's Tidbit... Steal This Shirt!
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Piling On
Today's Tidbit... Red Shirts, White Shirts, and Blue Shirts
Today's Tidbit... Before Injury Carts
Trains, Planes, and Football Conferences
Today's Tidbit... Doubling Your Pleasure
Today's Tidbit... Rocking The Rock's Letter Sweaters
Today's Tidbit... Footballs of Different Stripes
Breaking News... The Western Intercollegiate Brothers Are Putting the Band Back Together!
Today's Tidbit... The Worst Was Yet To Come
Today's Tidbit... Keeping Track of Your Mouth Guard
Today's Tidbit... No Secrets During Pre-Game Warmups
Today's Tidbit... The 1898 Princeton-Yale Game
Today's Tidbit... The More Things Change and Massive Badger Offensive Linemen
Today's Tidbit... Kicking the Try After Goal
Today's Tidbit... Georgia Tech Hits Football’s First Grand Slam
Today's Tidbit... Football Without An End Zone
Terminology... Football, Rugby, Soccer, and Varsity
Today's Tidbit... Jackie Robinson, Football Star
Today's Tidbit... Eligible Receivers and Helmet Colors
Today's Tidbit... Center Snapping With His Foot
Today's Tidbit... Football Equipment Hall of Shame
Early Football Gear: Canvas Vests and Union Suits
Today's Tidbit... Tapping the Talents of the Irish
Today's Tidbit... Flag Day, Football, and The Star-Spangled Banner
Today's Tidbit... Better Left in the Dark
Today's Tidbit... There’s Two in Every Crowd
Interclass Hazing and Class Football in the Game's Evolution
Today's Tidbit... It’s Raining Footballs
Today's Tidbit... Just Like It’s Drawn Up (or Not)
Today's Tidbit... The Quarterback as Blocking Back
Today's Tidbit... Football’s First Chains
Today's Tidbit... In Other Worlds: Auto Polo
Today's Tidbit... Blocking Sleds and Other Travesties
Today's Tidbit... Advances in Shoulder Pads
Today's Tidbit... Practice Makes Perfect
Today's Tidbit... Officials' Uniforms in 1932
Today's Tidbit... It Wasn't Always A Level Playing Field
Terminology... Three Yards and A Cloud of Dust
Today's Tidbit... Before Face Masking
Today's Tidbit... Yale Defends a Harvard Free Kick in 1899
Today's Tidbit... Memorial Day Weekend Tribute to 362nd Infantry Regiment Officers’ Football Team
Today's Tidbit... Memorial Day Weekend Tribute to H. B. "Pete" Lenz
Today's Tidbit... Memorial Day Weekend Tribute to Kearie Lee Berry
Today's Tidbit... Memorial Day Weekend Tribute to Jimmy DeHart
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast (May 27, 2022): Historical Differences in Canadian and American Football
Today's Tidbit... The CFL Preseason Opens Tonight – A Look at Canadian vs. American Football
Today's Tidbit... Bringing the Ball into Play from Out of Bounds
Today's Tidbit... How Early Football Players Saved Their Soles
Today's Tidbit... Outfitting A Football Club at the Hardware Store
Pounding the Rock: Football at Joliet's Stateville Penitentiary
Today's Tidbit... A TD Pass from A.A. Stagg’s Spread Formation Beat Princeton in 1921
Today's Tidbit... The NCAA Did Not Require Face Masks Until 1993
Today's Tidbit... The Man in the Iron Mask
Today's Tidbit... Great Illustration of Early 1900s Football
Today's Tidbit... Florida Field had Dugouts in the 1930s
Today's Tidbit... When Football Officials Wore White Shirts
When Football Coaches Wore Football Pants
Today's Tidbit... Football’s Ugliest Uniforms: The 1930s
Today's Tidbit... Camp Funston v. Illinois and George Halas on Thanksgiving 1917
Today's Tidbit... Coaches Benefitted Long Before NIL Came Along
Today's Tidbit... A State-of-the-Art Scoreboard in 1921
Today's Tidbit... Things Are Not Always As They Seem
Today's Tidbit... When Teams Played in Two Conferences
Today's Tidbit...Loafing on the Field
1918 Great Lakes Naval Training Station Football Team
1918 Mare Island Marines Football Team
1917 Mare Island Marines Football Team
1917 Camp Lewis (91st Division) Football Team
Today's Tidbit... Happy Mothers’ Day To All Football Moms
Today's Tidbit... Student Pilots Flew Scouts to Games
Lies, Damned Lies, and Quarterback Sneaks
Today's Tidbit... LSU Football had Shallower Pockets in 1911
Today's Tidbit... The Agony of Da’ Feet
Today's Tidbit... Early Agility Drills
May the 4th Down Box Be With You
Today's Tidbit... Bobby Layne’s Position Switch
Today's Tidbit... Army Speaks with One Voice
1917 362nd Infantry Regiment Officers Football Team
Today's Tidbit... Carlisle and Haskell as Football Powers
Today's Tidbit... Beads to Make Face Masks Safer
Today's Tidbit... Pro Football Farm Clubs
Today's Tidbit... Worst Draft Pick(s) Ever
Keeping Crowds Behind the Ropes
Today's Tidbit... All Male Cheerleading Squads
Monroe County Museum Speaker Series: Football Uniforms and Equipment - 1869 to 1959
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast (December 3, 2021): History of Football Jersey Numbers
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast (October 4, 2021): History of the Early Forward Pass
WTVR: Finding the 1929 West Point Buffalo Soldiers Championship Trophy
Gridiron Greats Book Review: How Football Became Football
The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books
Phil Thompson / Chicago Tribune: 1918 in Chicago sports
Four Questions for Timothy P. Brown: The World War I Centennial Commission
Weinreb: 100 years ago, a Rose Bowl that really could claim to be the Grandaddy of Them All
Today's Tidbit... Football’s First Scoop and Score
Today's Tidbit... American Football Fields Had 55-Yard Lines Until 1912
West Point Cavalry Detachment Football
Today's Tidbit... Before Football Had End Zones
Today's Tidbit... The Big Game Was Always A Tough Ticket
Today's Tidbit... When Piling On Was Legal
Today's Tidbit... Early Shoulder Pads Were Just Pads
Today's Tidbit... Yale's Ten First and Second Team All-Americans
Taking the Reverse Quarterback for a Spin
Today's Tidbit... The First Football Field Marked with Hash Marks
Today's Tidbit... Football on Easter
Today's Tidbit... John Madden was Def. Coordinator at San Diego State Under Don Coryell
Today's Tidbit... When Dick Reichle Huddled and Homered
Today's Tidbit ... That Time the SEC Commissioner Wanted to Ban Recruiting
Going Deep on Coffin Corner, Squib and Pooch Kicks
Big Boys on the Run: When Linemen Carried The Ball
Football Art in College Yearbooks
Maul-ins, Mauls, and the Fundamentals of Football
1903 Phillips Andover Game Images and the Bullock Brothers
1,000 Words: The 1920 Colgate-Cornell Game
Football Halftimes Through The Years