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Today’s Tidbit... Sol Metzger and His Syndicate

If you’ve ever spent time combing newspapers.com or another newspaper archive, you realize that newspapers of old were filled with syndicated stories, much like today’s. A small-town Iowa newspaper might send its reporter or field calls abo...

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When Seconds Matter: A History of Football Scoreboard Clocks

The recent Michigan-Western Michigan escapade was highly unusual, but beneath the disconnected clock thing, it reminds us how central time is to football today.

It wasn’t always so. At first, teams played two 45-minute halves, and the refe...

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Innovations or Oddities in Linesman Equipment

On the Pigskin Dispatch Podcast, Darin Hayes and I discuss Eckie-Lipp Linesmen equipment and Down Recording Disc of the 1920s to 1940s. The Eckie part of the name came from was Walter Eckersall and Lipp referred to Joe Lipp, who was the bra...

12 days ago
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The Horns of the Rams’ Dilemma

Logos on football helmets are now nearly universal. Luddites like Penn State and the Cleveland Brown still exist, but logos have become a major part of how teams brand themselves, even when that branding is based on novelty, like Oregon.

S...

15 days ago
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Allison Danzig’s View of Pro Football

On the Pigskin Dispatch Podcast, Darin Hayes and I discuss the Allison Danzig and his 1921 article calling for reconstituting the Crescent Athletic Club, as a means for former college players to continue playing football, and demonstrating...

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