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We cover the greatest moments in sports history on a daily basis recognizing the athletes that performed them and the uniform numbers they wore for the date of October 19 in history.

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A special re-release of episode Number 8 "The Four Horseman" is being put out to celebrate the 98th anniversary of the famous Notre Dame vs. Army game of 1924.

Grantland Rice has been credited with dubbing the all-time great quartet of backs who starred for the 1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team – Miller and Stuhldreher, Crowley and Layden – as “The Four Horsemen.” But did he get the expression from another source, namely Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer…?

October 1924. Like many of his peers in newsprint and radio, quasi-famous sportswriter Orville Mulligan is sent to Polo Grounds in New York City to cover college football’s game of the week between the top-ranked Irish and the Army Cadets of West Point.

Meanwhile back at the offices of Orville’s ’paper of employment, the Pittsburgh Guardian, editor-in-chief Frank Delft attempts to avert a follicular crisis with disastrous results…

Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is an audio drama podcast from Number 80 Productions and the Sports History Network.

“The Four Horsemen” script and story by Os Davis and Darin Hayes.

Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer stars Doug Fye, Ilona Fye, and Eric Bodwell. "The Four Horsemen" co-stars in order of appearance Molly Adams, Lennon DeLeon, Steve Silva, Gwyneth Doland, John Roberts, Vernon Poitras, Vincent Anastasiou and Caedmon Holland.

Directing by Eric Bodwell. Sound recording and primary editing by Don McIver.

The theme song of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is “Dayton Triangles Rag” and was arranged and performed by Bruce Smith.  Other tracks used in this episode include

•  “Cletus Train Music” by Mike and Gene Monroe;

•  “Jazz Club” by Kriss (available through fair-use agreement via FreeMusicArchive.org); and

•  “Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer (Outro)” by David Liso of Dynamo Stairs.

Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is produced by Os Davis and Darin Hayes. Series concept by Darrin Hayes.

Stay tuned for more episodes of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer – coming soon!

Listen in on the summary of one of the greatest football games ever played and one that really changed the game. We use some excerpts from the Number 80 Productions Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer to help tell the story.

Special recognition to our actors from Orville Mulligan: Sportswriter audio drama segments are:

FREDDIE CARSON (radio announcer) - Caedmon Holland

ORVILLE - Doug Fye

DOOGS “DOOGS" DOOGLE - Vernon Poitras

Also the great writing and producing of Mr. Os Davis are evident. Find more episodes at Orville Mulligan: Sportswriter or your favorite podcast provider.

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One of the top experts in early football rules history Timothy P. Brown joins us in the discussion to explain the 1915 season of Brown University. Timothy Brown's FootballArchaeology.com has a daily football factoid that he shares that is really quite interesting in a short read. They preserve football history in a very unique way and we are quite happy that Tim has agreed to join us each week to go over some of his Today's Tidbits. Click that link and you can subscribe for free to receive them yourself each evening.

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In this edition of the Sports Break, we cover the top events in sports history along with the players and athletes that were a part of them on October 18. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.

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Our friend historian, podcaster and author Joe Ziemba joins us to chat bout his latest book released titled [url=https://www.amazon.com/Bears-vs-Cardinals-Oldest-Rivalry/dp/1476688516/ref=sr_1_1?adFormat=grid&adId=searchbar&adMode=search&adType=smart&creativeASIN=searchbar&imprToken=560a30a78cee91af69d84e9daac370f4&impressionTimestamp=1665969103261&keywords=Bears+vs.+Cardinals+book&linkCode=w42&qid=1665969126&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjAwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&ref-refURL=https%3A%2F%2Fpigskindispatch.com%2F&sig=undefined&sigts=undefined&slotNum=0&sr=8-1]Bears vs. Cardinals: The NFL's Oldest Rivalry[/url]. (Please note the link just offered is our Amazon Affiliate link and a small part of the proceeds will help Pigskin Dispatch with costs, the majority goes to Joe and his publisher) The publisher is [url=http://mcfarland.com/]McFarland Books[/url]. In this episode, Joe tells us tales about George Halas and Chris O'Brien. He also explains the evolution of the Chicago Bears from the Decatur Staleys and Chicago Staleys and maybe a secret as to why Halas left Decatur. We also chat about the Chicago Cardinals morphing from the Morgantown Athletic Club and Racine Cardinals with stars like Paddy Driscoll.

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We cover the greatest moments in sports history on a daily basis recognizing the athletes that performed them and the uniform numbers they wore for the date of October 17 in history.

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We cover the greatest moments in sports history on a daily basis recognizing the athletes that performed them and the uniform numbers they wore for the date of October 16 in history.

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The Epic game in South Bend where Number 1 Miami came in to face the 4th ranked Fighting Irish. What an ending and what a game!

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We cover the greatest moments in sports history on a daily basis recognizing the athletes that performed them and the uniform numbers they wore for the date of October 1

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