1905 American Football Season
Influences on Camp’s Transformation of a Game As discussed in the last episode of PigskinDispatch.com’s blog series on football history, “A New Authoritative Organizational…
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1904 American Football Season
The 1904 American football season was a year of staggering dominance and the beginning of a massive shift in how the game was played…
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1903 American Football Season
When we last left this series in 1902, a challenge was issued as to why football is called the “gridiron.” How did you do…
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1900 American Football Season
The 1900 football season was dominated by another strong Yale team, which was unanimously retroactively named the champion by most experts. The calm before…
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1899 American Football Season
The final season of the 19th century added a couple of tweaks to the rules of American football, propelling it into the next century.…
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1898 American Football Season
Football in the late 1890’s was in a fairly stable period for the fledgling sport, relatively speaking. It was only a few years prior…
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1897 American Football Season
A major meeting took place on February 19, 1897, featuring representatives from Walter Camp, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Navy, and Princeton. The big news was…
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1896 American Football Season
Before we start looking at football in 1896, let’s review what was happening at the time. The big eastern schools were divided into two…
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1895 American Football Season
In 1895, American football was at a breaking point. It had been almost two decades since Americans had written down their own rules of…
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1894 American Football Season
Innovation in football is often celebrated as the mother of invention. However, in 1893, certain innovations, driven by strategists such as Lorin F. DeLand…
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