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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Lack of Uniformity
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the days when team uniforms often did not match.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Pulling the Wool Over Harvard's Eyes
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December 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... I'm Dreaming Of A Wet Christmas
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... I'm Dreaming Of A Wet Christmas
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.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The Disappearing Football Coach
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The Disappearing Football Coach
Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the story of Captain Richard F.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Football Chains, The Missing Link
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Football Chains, The Missing Link
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.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Training in 1923
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Training in 1923
Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss an book from the 1923 Wilson Athletic series covering conditioning.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... 1932 Colgate-Brown Thanksgiving Game
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... 1932 Colgate-Brown Thanksgiving Game
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.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Bibb Graves, WWI Veteran
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Bibb Graves, WWI Veteran
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.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Early Incomplete Pass Penalties
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Early Incomplete Pass Penalties
Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I discuss early incomplete pass penalties, which were far different than those of today.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Football's Big Balls
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Football's Big Balls
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.
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October 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Auburn's First Team, In Pictures
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Auburn's First Team, In Pictures
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.
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October 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... A Cloud of Dust and Four Yards
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... A Cloud of Dust and Four Yards
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.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Today’s Tidbit... A Puncher’s Chance To Recover Fumbles
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Today’s Tidbit... A Puncher’s Chance To Recover Fumbles
Football instituted a rule in 1929 that prevented defenses from advancing fumbles, a rule that remained in effect at the college level until 1990.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The Great Divides in Offensive Formations
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The Great Divides in Offensive Formations
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...
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September 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... What The Extra Points and the Changing Game of Football
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... What The Extra Points and the Changing Game of Football
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.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Center Snap Trickeration
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Center Snap Trickeration
Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I cover the issue of snapping between the quarterback’s legs.
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September 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... One or Two Feet In?
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... One or Two Feet In?
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.
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June 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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June 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Carlisle vs. Harvard Law
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Carlisle vs. Harvard Law
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a 1910 game between students at Harvard Law School and Carlisle, coached by Pop Warner.
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May 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Walter Camp's Arresting Development
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Walter Camp's Arresting Development
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss the time Walter Camp was arrested for attempted murder.
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May 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Last Heisman Winner Without A Face Mask
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Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss the last Heisman Trophy winner who did not wear a face mask.
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May 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Firing Kansas' Top Coach
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss Kansas and their firing of A.
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April 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The First Nile Kinnick Stadium
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... The First Nile Kinnick Stadium
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.
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April 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... A Tricky Little Skeet
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... A Tricky Little Skeet
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a Tidbit concerning Skeets Lambert of Wabash College who brought two innovations to the forward pass, both of which were subsequently outlawed.
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April 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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College Yearbook Football Art, Vol. VI
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College Yearbook Football Art, Vol. VI
College yearbooks are a great source of old-school football and athletic art.
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April 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM