As a bonus to owning a copy of the book The World's Greatest Gridiron Team, You May Have Never Heard Of we present the great football historian and author Joe Ziemba, tell us more about this member of the 1903 Franklin All-Stars.

Special thanks to Wikimedia Commons for the image of the 1895 Purdue Boilermakers where we beleive we see Herman Kerkhoff in the back row third from the back.

A big thank you to Joe Ziemba who researched Herman and put together the above audio tribute to him.


Joe Ziemba

Joe Ziemba is the award-winning author of the book "When Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFL," "Cadets, Cannons and Legends: The Football History of Morgan Park Military Academy," and "Bears vs. Cardinals: The NFL's Oldest Rivalry. He is also the host of the Award Winning Podcast When Football was Football, found on the Sports History Network.