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About Sports
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The legendary athletes, teams, events and people that made contributions and memories in the sporting games we love. Enjoy this chronicled collection of the greatest stories of sport.
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Go To Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17Abusing Football Officials
With the start of the football season, we will soon hear of frightful behavior by players, coaches, and fans who assault game officials due to the calls or lack of calls made in games. Such behavior is unacceptable whenever it occurs, but it would be a mistake to believe this type of behavior is new. The world has always had jerks, and a part of its jerk population has found its way onto football fields. So, here are a few stories of our grandparents, great-grandparents, or their ancestors actin — www.footballarchaeology.com
Football Archaeology digs up some events where fans and players got into altercations with officials over a call.
The Football Game that started them all?
Princeton University records the information on the famous November 6, 1869 football game, that many claim started the game of college football.
Cal Tech Eyeglass Shield
I’m a sucker for oddball pieces of player equipment that one person or another developed along the way, and the more quickly the equipment died out, the better. Facial and eye protection is among football’s richest veins for oddball equipment. The nose guards of the 1890s and 1910s led to executioner’s masks in the 1920s, and birdcage face masks in the 1930s, and a proliferation of Lucite and rubber-covered metal masks in the 1950s. — www.footballarchaeology.com
Timothy P. Brown takes his Football Archaeology back to an innovation by the Cal tech team where they protected the players who wore glasses with a face shield.
Alternating Sets Of Downs
A Tidbit published a few days ago described how American football transitioned between 1906 and 1912 from requiring teams to gain five yards in three downs to ten yards in four downs. Some prominent coaches argued that teams should gain eight or fifteen yards in four downs, but they adopted the four downs to gain ten yards approach, which remains the rule today. — www.footballarchaeology.com
Timothy P Brown takes Football Archaeology into the thought of one innovative coach to alternate the number of downs teams would have and even eliminate the game clock.
The Jump Pass
The legend says that Bronco Nagurski threw the first jump pass in the 1932 NFL Championship game when he had the ball in his backfield, began running forward, and suddenly jumped straight up and threw the ball to a teammate a bit downfield. The Bears’ opponents, the Portsmouth Spartans, protested the play, arguing that Nagurski had thrown the pass from within five yards of the line of scrimmage, which was illegal then. — www.footballarchaeology.com
Timothy P. Brown gives an in-depth history behind one of the gridiron's most legendary throws, the Jump Pass
Who Invented The Hidden Ball Trick, And When?
It is often claimed that Pop Warner’s Carlisle Indians executed the first hidden ball trick against Harvard in 1903, but that claim is wrong several times over. During the 1903 game, the last game played on Harvard’s Soldiers’ Field with the nearly-finished Harvard Stadium looming in the background, Carlisle came close to upsetting the Crimson, as the Bostonians won 12-11. — www.footballarchaeology.com
Timothy P. Brown was the question Who Invented The Hidden Ball Trick, And When? and then answers it in the Football Archaeology.
The sidesaddle Quarterback and Tennessee Formation
Football’s early quarterbacks aligned directly behind the center or slightly offset to receive the snap as the ball rolled or bounced back after the center snapped the ball with his foot. Since the player receiving the snap -typically the quarterback- could not run with the ball, he quickly tossed or handed it to a teammate. — www.footballarchaeology.com
The old Sidesaddle Quarterback and Tennessee Formation are dusted off and examined along with their originator and usage by Timothy P Brown.
1966 Football Practice Equipment Catalog
Football teams practice four, five, or more times more often than they play games, so the methods and equipment used in practice are vital parts of the game’s history. Today we review an eight-page catalog released by Premier Products in 1966 that touts their blocking sleds, dummies, and a few miscellaneous items. — www.footballarchaeology.com
Timothy P Brown takes the Football Archaeology focus to the practice equipment for football in the 1960s.
The Kick Six Of Old
Every football fan today is familiar with the pick six, a term that came into use in the early 2000s after an NFL analyst found that teams returning interceptions for touchdowns won 77% of those games. Many also recall Auburn’s Kick-Six, when Chris Davis returned a missed Alabama field goal attempt 109 yards to win the 2013 Iron Bowl. — www.footballarchaeology.com
Timothy P. Brown reminds us of how some antiquated rules allowed a now-disallowed way of scoring.
Before There Was Pass Interference
It isn’t easy to get things right on the first go-around, as shown when the forward pass became legal in 1906. The rules heavily restricted the forward pass, and the game lacked proven throwing, catching, and route-running techniques we now consider obvious. Also missing were rules concerning pass interference. — www.footballarchaeology.com
Timothy P. Brown has dug up the dirt on what football looked like before restrictions of interference during a forward pass in this Football Archaeology post.
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