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This is an old podcast but worth listening to if you haven't. The first part talks about the origins of football, and the Carlisle Indian School team taking on the heavy-weights at Harvard.
Also should be mandatory listening for every ****ing blowhard media ****face that cries about the "integrity of the game," and every whiny crybaby coach complaining about the constant rule-bending. The history of the game is littered with every imaginable thing to gain an edge. Heck, we name the kid league after one of the most legendary cheaters the game has ever seen.
Pop Warner was a lawyer, and he bent/broke every rule he could until they clarified/changed rules every year. He'd sew a football-like patch in the center of the jersey to confuse the opponent, or have the QB stuff it in the back of the center's jersey, who rumbled in for an easy TD.
Harvard was a football powerhouse at the time, and while Warner pissed them off, they learned quickly. Rules dictated the home team got to choose the football, so they chose one that was dyed the colour of Harvard's home jerseys to minimize Warner's football patches and add their own confusion.
Some more interesting reads here:
http://www.footballandrationalthoughts.com/2014/10/27/football-history-hidden-ball-trick/
http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2015/01/22/pop-warner-knute-rockne-vince-lombardi-bill-belichick/
This is an old podcast but worth listening to if you haven't. The first part talks about the origins of football, and the Carlisle Indian School team taking on the heavy-weights at Harvard.
Also should be mandatory listening for every ****ing blowhard media ****face that cries about the "integrity of the game," and every whiny crybaby coach complaining about the constant rule-bending. The history of the game is littered with every imaginable thing to gain an edge. Heck, we name the kid league after one of the most legendary cheaters the game has ever seen.
Pop Warner was a lawyer, and he bent/broke every rule he could until they clarified/changed rules every year. He'd sew a football-like patch in the center of the jersey to confuse the opponent, or have the QB stuff it in the back of the center's jersey, who rumbled in for an easy TD.
Harvard was a football powerhouse at the time, and while Warner pissed them off, they learned quickly. Rules dictated the home team got to choose the football, so they chose one that was dyed the colour of Harvard's home jerseys to minimize Warner's football patches and add their own confusion.
Some more interesting reads here:
http://www.footballandrationalthoughts.com/2014/10/27/football-history-hidden-ball-trick/
http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2015/01/22/pop-warner-knute-rockne-vince-lombardi-bill-belichick/
