Football History Rewind
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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Football History Rewind
Football History Rewind
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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Football History Rewind
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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Football History Rewind
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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Football History Rewind
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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College Football Teams
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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Football History Rewind
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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Football History Rewind
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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Football History Rewind
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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Evolution of the Game
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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