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About Sports

Dive into the exhilarating world of sports! Whether you're a die-hard fan or a casual spectator, this section is your ultimate playground for all things athletic. Roar with the crowds, sweat alongside the athletes, and relive iconic moments – it's all here. Explore in-depth analyses of your favorite teams, delve into captivating player profiles, and get fired up by passionate commentaries.

So, grab your metaphorical jersey, lace up your virtual cleats, and prepare to be immersed in the heart-pounding, adrenaline-pumping world of sports! Let the games begin!

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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Football Early Executioner Mask

Broken noses were primarily relegated to football’s past in the 1960s due to the widespread use of face masks. Before that, broken noses were common, so players, trainers, and equipment manufacturers developed methods to protect the proboscis or, at least, to keep them from further harm once injured. Noses went unprotected until 1892 when Harvard captain Arthur Cumnock developed a hard rubber device to protect a teammate’s broken nose. Cumnock soon sold the rights to his invention to John Mo — www.footballarchaeology.com
Timothy Brown takes his Football Archaeology focus towards some player protective gear evolution our way, was he studies early face guards.

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

Sideline Plays and How We See the Past and Future

Studying history helps us understand that each of us understands the world through a unique perspective that results from the time and place we were born, educated, and all our life experiences. For example, as someone living in 2023, it isn’t easy to see the world through the eyes of someone living in the 1920s and 1930s because we bring a worldview informed by the events of the last 100 or 90 years. Likewise, try as they might, those living in the 1920s and 1930s struggled to see the future, — www.footballarchaeology.com
Football Archaeology provides a brilliant viewpoint of how side-line plays were viewed prior to 1932 and the strategy was a bit different than we understand it today.

The Rouge and the Two-Point Conversion

It may be the social media circles I ride in, but I’ve enjoyed the attention received by Saskatchewan earning a rouge in Thursday’s game and the potential rouge in Friday’s Winnipeg-Calgary game. Canadian football does not have touchbacks. Downing the ball or being tackled in the end zone following an opponent’s kick results in a rouge or single, which scores one point for the opponent; it is akin to a safety. (Punting or kicking the ball into the opponent’s end zone that then goes out — www.footballarchaeology.com
An interesting look back at the History of Canadian Football's rouge scoring and American Football's two-point conversion by Football Archaeology

From Goat to Good

Teams did not kick field goals in the 1950s with the same frequency as today. College teams often did not attempt field goals in situations we would consider nearly automatic today because straight-ahead kickers were less accurate, did not kick as far as the sidewinders that soon became popular, and the limited substitution rules of the time meant the player doing the kicking was generally among the team’s eleven starters. The kicker was often the best all-around athlete on the team, which is — www.footballarchaeology.com
The football story of a player that took a no-win situation and was successful, propelling him to be remembered in gridiron lore for years to come. Fron Football Archaeology.com

Football's First Coaching Schools and Clinics

I recently came across a claim that the first football coaching clinic came in 1924 under the direction of Ira \"Irl\" Tubbs, then the football and basketball coach at Wisconsin’s Superior Normal School. Tubbs played football at William Jewell before coaching at Superior High School, where his top player was Ernie Nevers. Tubbs’ 1920 team was widely considered the best team in the state. Their only competition for the mythical state title came from East Green Bay High, coached by a young Cur — www.footballarchaeology.com
A look back at some of the early coaching clinics and educational venues for football coaches

Unintended Consequences of the Fair Catch Signal

As football transitioned from rugby, it brought along rugby’s rules and traditions, including rugby’s fair catch, in which players signaled the fair catch by \"heeling in\" as they made the catch. Heeling in occurred when players struck the ground with the heel of their foot, creating a divot to mark the spot. Since heeling in occurred simultaneously with or just after the catch, the kicking team players covering the punt could not tackle the returner until they saw whether or not he heeled — www.footballarchaeology.com
The fair catch signal was derived from rugby and Football Archaeology dives into the history of this signal

The 1933 Rules Committee And The Future of Football

Regular readers of this site and other intelligent people know that American football has often faced conflicts over the game’s direction. Today, the primary disputes in college football are player safety and money. Some see targeting and other rules intended to eliminate dangerous hits as at odds with the aggressive play they consider central to football. Likewise, college football’s transfer portal and NIL move the game into territory many do not like. Regardless of where you stand on eith — www.footballarchaeology.com
Football Archaeology looks back at the 1933 NCAA Rules revisions and the issues they had that affected football forward.

The Dutchman and Portland's Finest Rose

The beautiful story of a couple named Gloria and her NFL superstar husband Norm Van Brocklin and their love of life, family, and most of all, each other. The story follows the rise of the Dutchman's brilliant football playing career at the University of Oregon and in the NFL in Los Angeles, and Philadelphia as well as his coaching career.
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