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Today's Tidbit.. A Look at Early Incomplete Pass Penalties

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Extra Points and the Changing Game of Football

1909 Chicago Eckersalls vs. St. Louis Cochems

A Hole Big Enough To Drive A Mack Truck Through

Today's Tidbit... When Football Had Bigger Balls

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Center Snap Trickeration

The First Iron Bowl and 1892-1893 Auburn Football Images

Today's Tidbit... 1942 NYC College Football and Conservation Poster

First-To-Second Game Improvement aka Daugherty's Law

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Chicago North Division High's Stars of 1904

1920s Women's Football at Gustavus Adolphus

Today's Tidbit... Officials and Their Signals

Today's Tidbit... Pass Defense in 1947 or 1955

Today's Tidbit... Defenses of 1947 or 1955

Today's Tidbit... Offensive Plays of 1947 or 1955

Today's Tidbit... Everybody's Football, Authors and Illustrator

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Parke H. Davis, the Badger

Today's Tidbit... Offensive Formations in 1955, Part II

Today's Tidbit... Offensive Formations in 1955

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Minnesota's Spinner Series

Today's Tidbit... A Look Back At Snapping Between The Quarterback's Legs

Today's Tidbit... Football and Facial Hair

Today's Tidbit... Putting Offensive Football On Hold

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Factoid Feast XV

1955 East Los Angeles JC Schedule and Weingart Stadium

1904 Chicago North Division High's Stars

Brothers Collide In The 1909 Carlisle-St. Louis Game

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The Heisman Trophy and Canadian Football

The Rise and Fall of Hip and Kidney Pads

Factoid Feast XVI

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... When The Bench Enters Play

1960 NFL Enterprises Catalogue: Booze and Butts

1960 NFL Enterprises Catalogue: Adult Apparel

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Football Tees Off

1960 NFL Enterprises Catalogue: Youth Apparel

Parke H. Davis Coaches the 1893 Wisconsin Badgers

Pete Overfield and Center Play in 1897

Pigskin Books Review of How Football Became Football

Film Room: 1915 Cornell@Penn

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... No Returns on Exchanges

Today's Tidbit... Harvard Stadium's 1929 Expansion Plans

Today's Tidbit... Play Like A 1961 Champion Catalog

1955 Don Spencer and Coca-Cola Program Covers

Factoid Feast XV

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... A Conference That Counts

Today’s Tidbit… What's Wrong With This Picture?

Gavin Hadden and Crescent Stadiums

Today's Tidbit... Interceptions As Incompletions

Announcement and Feedback Request

The Packard Sports Library and Iron Men Football Teams

Today's Tidbit... Billy Vessels and Heisman Winners in Canadian Football

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Berwanger Makes The Call

Today's Tidbit... An Insider's Look at Super Bowl VII's Helmet Carts

Today's Tidbit... Getting A Kick Out Of The 1914 Rules

Today's Tidbit... Unfair Acts and the 12th Man

Today's Tidbit... Minnesota's Spinner and Their Ineffective Passing Game

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... When Referees Make A Point (or Six)

Today's Tidbits... Freshmen Beanies at Football Games

Today's Tidbit... When The Shoe Isn't On The Other Foot

Today's Tidbit... Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... One or Two Feet In?

Stadium Size, Football Droppers, and Deemphasizers: Fordham

Today's Tidbit... The Football Blues

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Marietta's Touchdown Pass of Undetermined Length

Today's Tidbit... The Point of No Return

Wild Card Substitutions and the Small College Rebellion

Stadium Size, Football Droppers, and Deemphasizers: Wichita State

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Michigan-Ohio State And Their Savage Connection

Factoid Feast XV

The Big Ten's Comings and Goings

Today's Tidbit... A Heisman Winner Makes The Call

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Carlisle vs. Harvard Law

Today's Tidbit... 1943 Tulsa and Wartime Conditions

Today's Tidbit... The Wonderful World of Striped Footballs in 1951

A Yalie Coaches the 1908 Iowa College / Grinnell Team

Terminology: Bull Rush, Swim Technique, and Forearm Shiver

Today's Tidbit... Referees Awarding Points

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Letter from a Ewbank

Today's Tidbit... A CFL-NFL Penalty Comparison for Victoria Day

Today's Tidbit... The Innovative Ring Cleat

Today's Tidbit... Getting Married Bowl Game Morning

Today's Tidbit... What Color Is Your Pair of Pants (and Jersey)?

Today's Tidbit... One Foot Inbounds Or Two?

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Walter Camp's Arresting Development

The New Mexico State-El Paso High School Battles

A Conversation with Knute Rockne III

Factoid Feast XIV

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Last Heisman Winner Without A Face Mask

Marietta College's Claim to the First Forward Pass

Swede Overesch and the 1916 Atlantic Fleet Playoffs

Today's Tidbit... A History of Football Tees

Villanova, Bud Dudley, and the Acme Supermarkets Giveaway

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Firing Kansas' Top Coach

Coaches Wearing Their College Letter Sweaters

Goal After Touchdown Images from 1887

Today's Tidbit... Harvard's Jarvis Field

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The First Nile Kinnick Stadium

Today's Tidbit... Of Jaw and Chin Straps

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... A Tricky Little Skeet

Today's Tidbit... Speaking Loudly and Loudspeakers

Today's Tidbit... Inventing the Option/RPO in 1929

Factoid Feast XIII

Today's Tidbit... Patently Ugly Football Fields

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The First Helmet Stripes

Football Archaeology and Generative AI

Writing, Editing, and Consulting Services

The Richmond Tigers, the Ewbanks, and A Mystery Ringer

College Yearbook Football Art, Vol. VI

Walter Camp Arrested For Attempted Murder

Today's Tidbit... Walter Camp, Football's First Professional

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... 1950s Football Home Movies

Today's Tidbit... Football At The Chicago Veterinary College

Today's Tidbit... Getting Your Signals Crossed

Two-Lace Football Prototypes

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Holding On

Today's Tidbit... When Kansas Fired Their Best Football Coach

Huddled Masses #4

Wilson's 1955-56 Catalog and the Future of Face Masks

Today's Tidbit... Football Balks And Snapper Feints

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Halftime Entertainment, or Not

Today's Tidbit... The Unlikely 1910 Carlisle-Harvard Law School Game

Today's Tidbit... Chuck Cramer's Sprained Ankle

Stadium Size, Football Droppers, and Deemphasizers: Long Beach State

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... All Wrapped Up

Today's Tidbit... Scoring the 1939 Army-Navy Game

Today's Tidbit... The Tie Goes To The Kicker

The Name of the Game: Canadian Rugby or Football?

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The Extraordinary Life of Paul Withington

Today's Tidbit... Football's First Striped Helmets

Today's Tidbit... 1950s Bell & Howell Tips On Football Home Movies

Today's Tidbit... Too Many Coachers

Today's Tidbit... Starkey Seminary and the Binghamton Snowbank

Today's Tidbit... Holders And Other Put Downs

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Training for Football and Other Travel Methods

Today's Tidbit... Paul Newman, Football, and The Sting

Today's Tidbit... Football's Interlocking Monograms

Today's Tidbit... 1935-1938 Associated Oil Football Schedules

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Notre Dame and Penn State's First Game in 1913

Today's Tidbit... The Days of Baggy, Bulbous Pants

Today's Pop Quiz: Famous Coaches of 1937

Today's Tidbit... Halftime Entertainment Reaches Olympian Levels

Today's Tidbit... The First Nile Kinnick Stadium

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The Notre Dame Shift

1883 Michigan-Stevens Institute Game

Today's Tidbit... When The Gophers Played With Fire

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Pa Corbin's Trickeration

Factoid Feast XII: Happy 55-Yard Line Elimination Day

Grand Football Archaeologist 2.0

Today's Tidbit... All Aboard for 1941 Minnesota @ Washington

Today's Tidbit... Wabash and Kent Lambert's Forward Pass Innovations

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... A Look At Football Officials' Gear

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The Football Helmet As Icon

Observations on Canadian Football in 1931

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Thus Spake Archaic Language

The First Damn Halftime Marching Band in the Land

Film Room: 1928 Notre Dame-Army "Win One For The Gipper" Game

NIL Contracts and Coaches' Buyouts

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Kicking From Dirt Tees

Stadium Size, Football Droppers, and Deemphasizers: St. Mary's

Today's Tidbit... Lotz Going On With Southington Football

Today's Tidbit... Football Crowds of the Past

The First Notre Dame-Penn State Game

Terminology: 1,000-Yard Rusher

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The Mother of All Overhand Spirals

1883 Michigan-Harvard Game

Yale's 1901 Bicentennial Team, The Most Accomplished Team Ever?

Turn-of-the-Century Fan Traditions

Pa Corbin and A Trick Well Executed

Tournament Park: Before They Built The Rose Bowl