Before Point Based Scoring in Football

Timothy Brown of Football Archaeology joins us again this week to educate us on another aspect of football. This week we chat about the evolution of the scoring of football and the time before the point based system.

In the game we love we know the objective is for offenses to score touchdowns and get the prized 6 points with more coming on a one point PAT or to go for the coveted two-point conversion. The game was not originally  scored in this manner as our friend Timothy Brown points out on a recent post on Football Archaeology. The game used equivalency-based scoring until the late 19th-Century and it evolved over time. Tim has the details on this story.

In the podcast episode above historian Timothy P. Brown explains who that was through his careful research through the newspapers and periodicals that carried such early gridiron coverage. Check out the original article on Tim's pages:

Today's Tidbit... Football Before Points Based Scoring

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A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: Timothy Brown and his FootballArchaeology.com website.

Banner photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of Photograph of Benny Friedman scoring Michigan's second touchdown against Wisconsin in October 1925 on a long kickoff return in the first quarter.