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The first women’s game was organized by Senda Berenson at Smith College in 1892. It initially features 9 players on each team. It would take 80 years before 5-on-5 basketball for women was approved at all of the top levels. For her efforts, Berenson was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. CREDITS Rick Loayza: Head researcher, writer, and voice Jacob Loayza: Editor, producer, and publisher M...

Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Mark is a lifelong fan of the Dallas Cowboys, even though he grew up in New Jersey This episode he covers how he fell in love with "America's Team" and a little into what happened up to the 1970 season. This is part 2. Be sure to listen to the first part if you have no...

Sports figures all over the world for at least a century have been called the Greatest Of All-Time, but there was only one to proclaim himself such with I AM THE GREATEST. That, of course, was Muhammad Ali. On this episode of Truly The GOATs, host Os Davis has on guests Simon Walters of the You Don’t Play Boxing podcast and Dan Neumann of our Sports History Network partner podcast Hello Old Sports...

When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Welcome to this week’s episode of “When Football Was Football.” I’m your host, Joe Ziemba. Usually, we dig into the dusty archives and share some interesting stories about the early days of professional football in the Chicago area. But for this episode, we’ll m...

Football Attic is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . Read the entire episode blog post and check out some other cool info regarding this episode here . EPISODE SUMMARY Today, we're going to talk about one of the greatest NFL defenses in recent memory, one that doesn't get its fair remembrance due to a lack of Hall of Famers and a lack of pl...

Join Gridiron Greats Magazine Publisher and Editor Bob Swick along with his co-host Joe Squires for the all new 2020 of Gridiron Greats Magazine-The Podcast Gridiron Greats Magazine is the only publication in America which focuses upon the history and memorabilia of the North American Football Game since its inception in 1869. Covering 150+ years of football history and memorabilia, Gridiron Great...

Hello Old Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY With the Army/Navy game coming up on December 12, we've decided to devote this week's episode to the history of the Army Black Knights football team! Among the stories we'll discuss:    The Colonel, Red Blaik, legendary head coach and close friend of General Do...

Football Is Family is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY There are times in life when you are humbled by what you don’t know. I thought I knew about the history of the Green Bay Packers. I thought I had an idea about the history of this great franchise. But I was wrong. This franchise has such a great amo...

The Football History Dude is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY This week I get to give thanks to all the partners of the Sports History Network. Listen to each trailer and take a gander into the shows that interest you the most. Here is the podcast page over on the network . THE FOOTBALL HISTORY DUDE BACKGROUND The Football...

One of the fastest players to ever grace the gridiron was the 5-foot-4 Buddy Young. A native of Illinois, Young played for the Illini before joining the AAFC (All America Football Conference) and later the NFL where he enjoyed great success with the then Baltimore Colts. Buddy’s speed and quickness is what made him a threat on the field. At Illinois, the first time Buddy ever touched a football, h...

Tom Meschery had one of the most unusual paths to the NBA. Descended from Russian nobility, his family escaped the Bolshevik Revolution and settled in China. They were then captured by the Japanese during World War II. His family finally settled in San Francisco and with this newfound stability, Meschery was able to blossom as an athlete and eventually made it to the NBA. Link to Tom Meschery...

Lombardi Memories is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY It’s time for… Lombardi Memories. A show that takes you back in time, into January or February, to the greatest one-day spectacle in all of sports. This is the every-other-Tuesday podcast that looks back at each and every one of the 50-plus Super Bowls and tells the sto...

Pigskin Past is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY There are few occurrences more unique than watching a pro football game where the field gets hit with snow flurries, then driving snow, then a full-scale blizzard. Such a snowy game was held on November 27, 1977, when the Minnesota Vikings visited the Green Bay Packers...

Football Attic is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . Read the entire episode blog post and check out some other cool info regarding this episode here . EPISODE SUMMARY This episode covers a little about the history of college football on Black Friday. FOOTBALL ATTIC BACKGROUND My name is John Gidley, and as I’m looking on my bookshelf, I se...

Hello Old Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY This week on Hello Old Sports we continue our journey back to 1920 with a look at all of the big events in baseball from that monumental year. Rube Foster founded the Negro League. Babe Ruth came to the Yankees. Carl Mays killed Ray Chapman with a pitch. Kenesaw Mountain...

The Football History Dude is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY This week I get to talk to Bill Keenist, a member of the Detroit Lions since 1985. He has had various roles with the company on the PR and Communications side of things, and now he is the team historian. We discuss many topics revolving around the Detroit Lions,...

The legend of John Wooden only grows stronger the more you study the life of this man. He is in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach, and the first person to earn such honors. A life of excellence is something we can all look up to. John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success: https://www.woodencourse.com/the-pyramid-of-success Article where Bob Knight talks about John Wooden: ht...

Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Mark is a lifelong fan of the Dallas Cowboys, even though he grew up in New Jersey This episode he covers how he fell in love with "America's Team" and a little into what happened up to the 1970 season. Stay tuned for part 2 in a couple of weeks. Read the entire episod...

When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Football games on Thanksgiving Day have been part of our culture since the game itself evolved in the 19 th century. Even before professional football teams locked horns on turkey day, we enjoyed watching everything from colleges, to high schools, to local kids’...

Football Attic is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . Read the entire episode blog post and check out some other cool info regarding this episode here . EPISODE SUMMARY Since a certain holiday is this Thursday, it seemed right to tell a story involving the National Football League on Thanksgiving, one of America's great traditions. Today, we...

Hello Old Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Join us this week on Hello Old Sports as we travel back in time 100 years to 1920, a watershed year in American sports. In Part One of this two-episode series, we cover topics such as the founding of the NFL, the 1920 Olympics, and a Stanley Cup final relocated because o...

Football Is Family is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY When it comes to the NFL, we tend to think about the 32 teams and the markets they make up. 32 different helmets. 32 different team names. 32 passionate fan bases. But, out of those 32 teams, how many of them are actually still in their original market?&...

Join Gridiron Greats Magazine Publisher and Editor Bob Swick along with his co-host Joe Squires for the all new 2020 of Gridiron Greats Magazine-The Podcast Gridiron Greats Magazine is the only publication in America which focuses upon the history and memorabilia of the North American Football Game since its inception in 1869. Covering 150+ years of football history and memorabilia, Gridiron Great...

The Football History Dude is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . Enter to win an autographed copy of Bill's book EPISODE SUMMARY This week I interview Bill Curry. He has lived an incredible "football life" as both a player and a coach. His life has even been referred to as the "Forrest Gump of the NFL" by some. For instance, he played for bo...

When the United States entered World War I, it signaled the end, for a while, to the landscape of college football. So many of the young men playing the game, put their college careers on hold, withdrew from school and joined the military to fight for their country. They left school and found themselves in “training camps” across the U.S., learning how to fight and preparing for deployment to help...