1893 American Football Season
When we last left the history lesson on football in this series, at the conclusion of 1892, we learned that the “Flying Wedge” formation…
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1892 American Football Season
The 1892 season opened with promise, as the Graduate Advisory Committee suggested tweaks to the rules, while teams like Harvard looked to push the…
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1891 American Football Season
Football in 1890 had problems with its rules, particularly regarding who was eligible to play at the collegiate level, but it was also spreading…
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1890 American Football Season
The Committee met again on November 14, 1889, but resolved nothing, and the divide between the two sides grew wider. This made 1890 a…
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1889 American Football Season
The 1889 season saw several significant events that helped shape the modern game of American football. Our story of football history left off as…
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1888 American Football Season
The 1888 season was a very radical year, as a couple of seemingly small rules changes from the spring conventions turned the game tacticians…
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1887 American Football Season
By 1887, American football had survived its infancy and was entering its “Gilded Age” of expansion. This wasn’t just a year of hard-hitting games;…
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Worldly Spring Connections to the Rise of Notre Dame Football
How are two events, occurring half a world away from each other in the spring of 1888, milestone moments for Notre Dame football? Imagine…
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1886 American Football Season
The late 1880s saw the introduction of many rules that are still essential to today’s football. These building-block years laid the foundation for our…
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1885 American Football Season
The debate at the specially convened football rules meeting in November 1884 highlighted the need to define the referee’s and the two judges’ authority……
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