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Hyperbole and the Game of the Century

Hut! Hut! Hike!, published in November 2022, describes the origins of over 400 football terms. This is article #5, covering additional aspects of football’s terminology. A \"game of the century\" is a huge matchup that football fans nationwide anticipate, watch, and look back upon at levels, unlike your run-of-the-mill big game. While few agree on the criteria for what constitutes a game of the century (GOTC), they have proven popular. — www.footballarchaeology.com
How many times have we heard that a great game in college football was the Game of the Century? Many time in the 20th Century. Tim Brown focuses this Football Archaelogy post to identify these great games.

First and Five, Eight, Ten, or Fifteen

During the game’s early years, football’s rules were virtually identical to those of rugby which did not allow teams to maintain possession from one scrimmage or scrummage to another. When football went down the possession path in 1880, the rule makers assumed that teams possessing the ball would play honorably, punting when they could not advance the ball after a few scrimmages. However, Princeton had other ideas and kept the ball play and after play versus Yale in 1880 and 1881, leading to — www.footballarchaeology.com
A look at the early yardage penalties in football and the evolution of the yardage enforcement on Football Arcaeology

Ice Bowl

Football History | The 1967 NFL Championship game was a memorable one. — pigskindispatch.com
The story of the legendary 1967 NFC Championship Game

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.
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Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer
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Gridiron Legacy: Pro Football's Missing Origin Story
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Bears versus Cardinals: The NFL's Oldest Rivalry
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