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Digging into football's past via footballarchaeology.com and five books: https://tinyurl.com/TPBAuthorPage
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Today's Tidbit... We Get Knox Down, But We Get Up Again
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Today's Tidbit... We Get Knox Down, But We Get Up Again
The 1934 Knox College team tied the college football record for most consecutive losses (since beaten) and are the only team to complete a full season without scoring a point.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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How did the forward pass begin and why did they struggle throwing the ball for a decade? Find your answers here.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The Disappearing Football Coach
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The Disappearing Football Coach
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the story of Captain Richard F.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Video #4 - Football Archaeology Hall of Fame - John Lockney
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Video #4 - Football Archaeology Hall of Fame - John Lockney
While the Football Archaeology Hall of Fame videos are typically released to paid subscribers first, Video #4 honors John Lockney and includes an extended interview with his son, Tom.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Today’s Tidbit... The Last Leather Helmets
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Today’s Tidbit... The Last Leather Helmets
I have a collection of old sporting goods catalogs I use to track the evolution of football equipment.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Today's Tidbit... Ernest Graves and the Gentlemanly Game
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Today's Tidbit... Ernest Graves and the Gentlemanly Game
If anyone ever tells you that football was once an honorable game played by honorable men using honorable methods, tell them they don’t know what they are talking about.
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December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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As far as I am concerned too.
December 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Instant all-timer here:
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Every time you turn around, you see another example of Canadians telling us to fuck ourselves, and we deserve it for electing as president the worst human being America has ever produced.
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Received this information from a follower in Canada.
It typifies how Trump is killing our economy just like he killed all his businesses!
That bronze-faced fucker couldn't turn a profit at a lemonade stand even if he got all his lemons for free.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Football Chains, The Missing Link
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Football Chains, The Missing Link
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the invention of football’s chains, which came in 1894, the same year football’s rules added the linesman to the officiating crew.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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I lost track of the post I initially saw this linked from. Apologies.

This is yet another articulation of how desperately slow non-trump American leadership is to catching onto the gravity of the situation.
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Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Video #3 - Football Archaeology Hall of Fame - Lloyd Olds
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Video #3 - Football Archaeology Hall of Fame - Lloyd Olds
The Football Archaeology Hall of Fame honors those whose significant contributions to football go unrecognized by traditional halls of fame.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Today’s Tidbit... Images of Indiana Football Past
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Today’s Tidbit... Images of Indiana Football Past
I’ve lived 52 of my 68 years in Big Ten country, and this is only the second morning I woke up thinking, “Indiana won the Big Ten football championship yesterday.” To honor this rare and august occasi...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes: Football Equipment Safety Standards
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Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes: Football Equipment Safety Standards
Football’s early rules said little about the equipment players could or should wear, mainly because players wore only light jerseys, tights, and caps.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Today’s Tidbit... The Fog of War-Time Football
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Today’s Tidbit... The Fog of War-Time Football
The 1942 College All-Star game, held at Chicago’s Soldier Field, was much like the eight that preceded it, except that the world was at war, a fact brought home to America the previous December 7.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Training in 1923
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Training in 1923
Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss an book from the 1923 Wilson Athletic series covering conditioning.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Today's Tidbit... When Airlines Became Central To Football
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Today's Tidbit... When Airlines Became Central To Football
Until recently, college athletic conferences were regional, mainly due to the limits of transportation technologies.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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The Right Way And The Wrong Way
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The Right Way And The Wrong Way
Roy Riegels picked up a fumble in the 1929 Rose Bowl, got turned around, and ran toward his own goal before his teammates tackled him on the one-yard line.
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November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... 1932 Colgate-Brown Thanksgiving Game
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... 1932 Colgate-Brown Thanksgiving Game
Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the 1932 Colgate-Brown Thanksgiving Day game that many touted as the contest to determine the Eastern Rose Bowl invitee.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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The Carlisle Indians And Their First Thanksgiving Day Football Game
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The Carlisle Indians And Their First Thanksgiving Day Football Game
Thanksgiving Day commemorates a 1691 feast between the Wampanoag tribe and the Pilgrims following a bountiful harvest.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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A college football national championship was decided today. Montreal beats Saskatchewan 30-16 in the Vanier Cup.
November 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Diamonds and the Rough: Football in Baseball Stadiums
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Diamonds and the Rough: Football in Baseball Stadiums
There was a time when coaches told football players with minor aches and pains to rub some dirt on it, but the rise of artificial turf and the disappearance of multi-purpose stadiums now leave players...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for The Chronicle Herald
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November 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Rerun: The Tower Play and Pyramid Defense
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Rerun: The Tower Play and Pyramid Defense
Yesterday, I received messages from several long-term subscribers asking whether I had ever written about particular topics or pointing out an interesting event in football history.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Today’s Tidbit... Marietta and Sowle Face Masks
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Today’s Tidbit... Marietta and Sowle Face Masks
When researching football’s past, I sometimes come across information that doesn’t catch my attention until I stumble upon something else that connects the dots.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM