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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