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The 1888 season was a very radical year, as a couple of seemingly small rules...
Football History Rewind
By 1887, American football had survived its infancy and was entering its “Gilded Age” of...
The late 1880s saw the introduction of many rules that are still essential to today’s...
How are two events, occurring half a world away from each other in the spring...
The debate at the specially convened football rules meeting in November 1884 highlighted the need...
By 1884, American football had outgrown its “experimental” phase and was rapidly becoming a game...
Settling the Score in Football Pigskin Dispatch’s Part 6 in the Series on American Football...
If 1876 was the birth of American football, 1882 was the year it grew up....
While 1881 might not have the “birth of the sport” branding of 1869, it was...
Forget the “scrum”—1880 was the year American football finally stood in a straight line. While...