Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss Gus Neely, who lost his right hand in a farming accident as a teen, yet went on to All-American status as a guard at Dartmouth.

Darin Hayes and I discuss the days when football faced significant inflationary challenges.

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the days when team uniforms often did not match.

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the story of the 1921 San Diego East-West Christmas Classic featuring Centre College and Arizona.

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the story of Captain Richard F.

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the invention of football’s chains, which came in 1894, the same year football’s rules added the linesman to the officiating crew.

Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss an book from the 1923 Wilson Athletic series covering conditioning.

Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the 1932 Colgate-Brown Thanksgiving Day game that many touted as the contest to determine the Eastern Rose Bowl invitee.

Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss Bibb Graves, who had the distinction of playing on the first varsity football teams at Alabama and Texas, a feat no on else could claim.

Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss early incomplete pass penalties, which were far different than those of today.

Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the size of early footballs, how and why the size changed over time, and how those changes impacted the game.

Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the Auburn’s first football team, the first Iron Bowl, and related images that reveal elements of how football was played in 1892 and 1893.

Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I the origins of the phrase, “three yards and a cloud of dust,’ which began in reverse order with a different number of yards.

Football instituted a rule in 1929 that prevented defenses from advancing fumbles, a rule that remained in effect at the college level until 1990.

Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss a 1955 publication, Everybody’s Football, and its focus on six offensive formations that are separated by snapping to the quarterback versus directs nappin...

Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the lowly extra point and how differences in its historical point values tell a larger story about the history of the game.

Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I cover the issue of snapping between the quarterback’s legs.

Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I cover the emergence of rules covering whether players are inbounds and out-of-bounds when catching punts, forward passes, or even, fumbles.

Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a 1910 game between students at Harvard Law School and Carlisle, coached by Pop Warner.

Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss the time Walter Camp was arrested for attempted murder.

Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss the last Heisman Trophy winner who did not wear a face mask.

Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss Kansas and their firing of A.

Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a Tidbit concerning the first Nile Kinnick Stadium, a stadium in Tokyo built for the 1940 Olympics that were never held.