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St. Louis University is remembered for some early football innovation and exceptional play. Their QB Bradbury Robinson was the first known player to throw and complete a legal forward pass. The team later had a trip worth remembering a century later, and Football Archaeology host Timothy P. Brown is here to share the tale.

Tim's original Tidbit titled St Louis U's Ill-Fated Trip West July 17, 2023 is ready to read!

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We are starting a series involving some True Crime elements with a gridiron twist.

Case Number 1: A story of murder in NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback Sid Luckman's past had a big impact on his family, as football may have saved Sid in more ways than one.

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We want to thank the following sources for their brilliant work that may have given us inspiration and information in today's episode.

OnThisDay.com

80sBaseball.com

Vintage Hockey Jerseys website

NBA.com

NFL.com

MLB.com

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Here is Tim's Original TidBit on the subject. The First Two-Platoon All-American Team

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Step into a time machine where cleat meets mud, pigskins soar, and legends are born. The film archive is your portal to the golden age of pro football, where every snap crackles with history, and every play unfolds like a cinematic masterpiece.

Founder and host Andrew Brown's Football Video Archive website is more than just an archive; this community of fans is curators of passion, chroniclers of gridiron greatness, and storytellers who bring the past to life through the magic of celluloid.  Pro Football Archive site

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The Big Ten Conference Football Championship game is a must-see on many fans of college football's annual watch lists. The schools' traditions and football programs are almost as old as the game itself. These title games had to start somewhere, and in this edition, we peek back into a post our guest Tim Brown wrote a while back on the inaugural Big 10 Championship game titled The Big Ten's First Conference Championship Game (in 1931) .

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The World's Greatest Pro Gridiron Team: The 1903 Franklin All-Stars. got closer to a perfect season in American football than anyone else in the sport’s professional history. A young merchant constructed the team in revenge for gambling losses and went undefeated, unscored upon, with opponents crossing the midfield stripe only twice and had an offense more productive than the famed collegiate point-a-minute teams.

Special Thanks to our dear friend Author R.C.Christiansen, who wrote the brilliant gridiron books of  The Border Boys and Mill City Scrum . R.C. came up with the idea to host the show and ask me questions about the book, and we appreciate him.

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Football celebrity broadcaster Eddie Dooley had some interesting angles on getting folks to listen to football. Tim Brown brings us the story from one of his past TidBits to entertain us with some past gridiron memories.

Tim's original TidBit is Eddie Dooley's 1936 All-America Team Contest

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The history of the Gridiron takes us to the exciting 1940 College season, when multiple teams had claims to the title, and the controversy of who was the best is still debated to this day.

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NO NONSENSE, OLD SCHOOL WEIGHTLIFTING HISTORY is presented by the Sports History Network, the headquarters for sports yesteryear.

ABOUT SHOW:

My name is Mark Morthier, and I host yesterday’s Sports on the Sports History Network. As many of you know from reading my articles and listening to my podcasts, I am not only an avid weightlifter but a fan of the sport as well. I’m excited to share my newest adventure, a show dedicated to promoting weightlifting, while also looking back at some weightlifting history. I’ll share some of my own stories and interview weightlifters from both past and present.

I competed in Olympic Weightlifting from 1981 to 1989 and powerlifting from 2011 to 2019. Although I wasn’t what one might call “a naturally gifted lifter,” I managed to clean & jerk 140 kilos/308 lbs at 179 lbs body weight. In my later years, I achieved a 600-pound deadlift and a 431-pound front squat in my mid-fifties. Although I was more successful in powerlifting, setting New Jersey and New York State records in Masters Competitions, I’ll always consider myself an Olympic Weightlifter. I’ve also written a book on weight training titled No Nonsense, Old School Weight Training, which is available on Amazon.

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I hope that you will enjoy the show, and please leave a comment or offer a suggestion. And if you’re an Olympic lifter, past or present, let me know if you’d like to set up an interview, and I’ll do my best to have you on the show. Stay strong and God bless!

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