In this episode, we talk with Football Archaeology founder Timothy P. Brown and a recent Tidbit he wrote that examines an extremely odd season in college football where eligibility cut the careers of some players short.
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Introduction
The tale of the very odd season of 1906 where there were very few Seniors eligible to play football due to a new guideline in college football. Timothy P Brown breaks it down and tells the details.
The Year of Living Seniorlessly
The tale of the very odd season of 1905 where there were very few Seniors eligible to play football due to a new guideline in college football. Timothy P Brown breaks it down and tells the details.About Our Guest
Here is more about our guest Timothy P. Brown and his Football Archaeology website, a great resource for gaining daily knowledge about football history.
Football Archaeology
Timothy Brown's FootballArchaeology.com is a website dedicated to preserving pigskin history. digs into gridiron history to examine how football’s evolution shapes today's game. The site has a variety of articles, history of football word origins, and Daily Tidbits, which have a daily football factoid that shares some quite interesting items and aspects of the gridiron in a short read. They preserve football history in a very unique way Visit the site at Today's Tidbits.
Timothy P Brown
Tim Brown, one of the foremost experts on early college football, is the host and founder of FootballArchaeology.com. Tim's love of the gridiron's past goes beyond just the website. Mr Brown, to date, is the author of three books on football history, appears on various football history podcasts, and has been quoted in articles by The Athletic, The Chicago Tribune, and other publications. He guest authors articles on UniWatch, and his research on the 1920s West Point Cavalry Detachment teams contributed to All American: The Power of Sports, currently on display at the National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C.His books include: Fields of Friendly Strife; How Football Became Football: 150 Years of the Game's Evolution; and Hut! Hut! Hike! A History of Football Terminology, which explores the history of football’s words and expressions and how they became connected to the game.
Credits and Thanks
A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: Timothy Brown and his FootballArchaeology.com website.
The image above in the banner is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of the 1905 University of Utah football team, courtesy of the University of Utah.