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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1884 American Football Season
By 1884, American football had outgrown its “experimental” phase and was rapidly becoming a game of total domination. This was the year that witnessed…
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1883 American Football Season
Settling the Score in Football Pigskin Dispatch’s Part 6 in the Series on American Football History The early history of football is a very…
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1882 American Football Season
If 1876 was the birth of American football, 1882 was the year it grew up. This was the pivotal moment the sport officially divorced…
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1881 American Football Season
While 1881 might not have the “birth of the sport” branding of 1869, it was the year the gridiron nearly broke. In 1881, American…
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1880 American Football History
Forget the “scrum”—1880 was the year American football finally stood in a straight line. While earlier years focused on whether to kick or carry…
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