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Digging into gridiron history to examine how football's evolution shapes today's game.
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Football’s Future, According to Pop (opens the original)
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On the Pigskin Dispatch Podcast, Darin Hayes and I discuss Pop Warner’s 1950 prognostication regarding the future of the Modern T formation, as told to Grantland Rice. One of football’s great innovators, Pop’s crystal ball must have been disconnected theday of the interview.Watch or listen to the podcast here or on other podcast feeds. You can read the original Tidbit below.<hr
Today’s Tidbit... First President-Elect to Attend a College Football Game (opens the original)
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Conventional wisdom is that Teddy Roosevelt was the first sitting U.S. president to attend a football game. He established the tradition of presidents attending the Army-Navy game by visiting Franklin Field in Philadelphia on November 30, 1901, and November 29, 1902, and Osborne Field in Princeton on December 2, 1905. The same received wisdom tells us the first president to attend a football game other than Army–Navy was William Taft, who enjoyed the LSU- Sewanee game in New Orleans in 1909.Sinc
Dropping Football: Wilberforce University (opens the original)
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It has been a while since I’ve looked at a school that dropped or deemphasized football, but earlier this week Wilberforce University of Ohio announced plans to add a football team beginning with the 2027 season. Wilberforce may not ring a bell for many people, but they were national champions in 1931.Wilberforce’s home is Wilberforce, Ohio, which sits a few miles east of Dayton. Founded as Union Seminary, it is the nation’s oldest private Historically Black College or University, and among the
Bates College Bobcast: College Football’s First Completed Forward Pass (opens the original)
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I recently appeared on the Bates College Bobcast with Aaron Morse, their Associate Athletic Communications Director, to discuss my recent story about Bates College throwing the first completed forward pass in college football history. You can listen to it at: Bates Bobcast Episode 423: A remarkable discovery (My part starts at 1:03:08)Also, Bates alum Robert Muldoon picked up on my story and took it many steps further with information about the players involved, their season, and their life acco
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Running with Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside (opens the original)
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On the Pigskin Dispatch Podcast, Darin Hayes and I discuss the West Point teams of the mid-1940s with Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis. We discuss how they blew the doors off of teams three straight years and won back-to-back Heismans.Watch or listen to the podcast here or on other podcast feeds. You can read the original Tidbit below.If you enjoy Football Archaeology and ar
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