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Today's Tidbit... Rivalry Games and the Dodd Family

This weekend features many of the intrastate and border rivalry games that are integral to college football's appeal, but there is another set of rivalry games that are less frequent and have all the appeal of the annual games. Those games come when a great coach and his son meet on a Saturday and stand on opposite sides o the field.

One of those events came in the fourth game of the 1960 season. Bobby Dodd was in his sixteenth season as head coach at Georgia Tech, and his son, Bobby Jr., was a F...

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: A Century of Rose Bowls

In the runup to the 100th anniversary of Rose Bowl Stadium’s opening, Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes begins a series of forty podcasts with various guests. Ordered chronologically, each podcast covers a different Rose Bowl or collection of games.

(1902 Spalding's Foot Ball Guide)

In the first of the series, Darin and I provide an overview of 100 years of Rose Bowl history. Click here to listen, or subscribe to Pigskin Dispatch wherever you get your podcasts.

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Today's Tidbit... Warner and the Inexperienced Cornell Eleven

College coaches today sometimes complain about their team's lack of experience, but at least they can be sure that most of their players have played football before. That was not the case early in the game's history, including in 1897 during Pop Warner's first year coaching Cornell.

'Coach Warner of Cornell,' World (New York), October 11, 1897.

Warner graduated from Cornell two years earlier, spending the next two years coach coaching Iowa State each August before heading to Georgia to coach the B...