Dogs in Autumn: The History of American Football

Let’s talk about how blocking briefly turned American football into one of the most violent sports on the planet.

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On today’s episode, we’re going over the very early days of football on the West Coast. I won’t lie, I’m feeling a little pessimistic about the future in this part of the country, at least with respect to the future of football. But if its history is any indication, it’ll work out some kind of way.

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Today, we’re talking Muscular Christianity. I promised it way back in the beginning and now I’m delivering. You’re going to find this is something that lays at the very root of all organized sports.

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Whatever happened to the daddy of the modern Big 12? What about the rivalry between Nebraska football and Oklahoma football? What’s going to happen to Bedlam between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State? Today, we’re talking a little about the history of the Big 8 and conference realignment.

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Today we’re going over the evolution of the early rules of American football, and how it came to distinguish itself completely from its immediate ancestor, early rugby. The two main things are the line of scrimmage as an innovation on the scrum, and the legalization of blocking, which is something that could not be more illegal in other forms of football around the world.

Basically, all major changes that occurred before the advent of the forward pass.

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On this episode of Dogs in Autumn: The History of American Football, we take a look at early football in Texas and the Plains, and talk a little about the two conferences that once dominated those regions--the Southwest Conference and the Big 8.

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Today on Dogs in Autumn, I go through a comparison of American football and soccer, talking about the evolution of tactics and strategies in each, and how the different choices made early on create the incredible difference that we see between the two today. I also talk a little about the difference in the business side of each, and how they're structured and organized. This'll be part one of a series I'll come back to in the future.

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In today's episode, I do a flyover of the history of the SEC, covering the exits of early founders Sewanee, Georgia Tech, and Tulane, as well as the end of Jim Crow in college football, and the three rivalries that have come to sit at the center of the league: the Iron Bowl, The Deep South's Oldest Rivalry, and The Third Saturday in October.

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In today's episode, I'm taking a stroll through the early landscape of football in the Southeast. We'll touch on the lost titan Sewanee--probably most famous today as a quirk in Alabama's fight song--as well as the first meeting between the Auburn Tigers and Georgia Bulldogs in 1892. We'll also introduce football in the HBCUs, in anticipation of a more in-depth look at them later.

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Welcome on into Dogs in Autumn: The History of American Football. In this episode, I cover the history of the NFL Draft, why it developed, and how it fits into the history of the sport up to the present. Thanks for listening. Feel free to contact me @DogsInAutumn on Twitter, or DogsInAutumn (at) gmail (dot) com.

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