Today's Tidbit... Scoring the 1939 Army-Navy Game

Buying a scorecard at a major league park and tracking each pitch or batter is a rite of passage in American sports, with some fans scoring every game they attend. A similar tradition never developed in football. I'm guessing that was the case for several reasons. Early football was a less discrete game than it is now in that teams quickly lined up after a man was downed and ran the next play, so the game flow was more continuous.

Football players also did not consistently wear numbers front and ...