Terms used in American football backfield, blitz, block, center, complete, cornerback, defense, defensive back, defensive end, down, end zone, field goal, football or pigskin, fullback, gridiron, guard, halfback, incomplete, interception, kicker, line or line of scrimmage, line backer, linema...
The Tennessee Titans may call Nashville home now, but their roots trace back to the gridiron battles of Houston. Born in 1960 as the Houston Oilers, t... ✦Washington Football From Braves to Redskins to Commanders Founded in 1932 as the Boston Braves, the Washington Commanders, originally na...
The Football History Dude podcast takes the listener back in time to the yesteryear of the gridiron. This podcast is part of The Sports History Network.
Glory on the Gridiron: A History of College Football in South CarolinaBerkeley Electronic Press Selected WorksFritz HamerSouth Carolina History
It was a spin-off from the inaugural days of professional football when the Massillon Tigers and the Canton Bulldogs met regularly on the gridiron. And when the local pro teams dissolved, the rivalry transferred itself to the high school teams. ...
But 18 years after the first confirmed use of a glove on the diamond, Navy’s Joseph Mason Reeves flashed the leather on the gridiron. Injuries prompted the Admiral to enlist the help of an Annapolis shoemaker for his football career to continue. In doing so, he becomes the first player ...
inspiration from American entertainers. His delivery was a cross between James Cagney and Groucho Marx, and he borrowed his defining epigram - the one about football not being a matter of life and death, but actually something much more important than that - from the gridiron coach, Vince ...
Football player Brady, Tom. Cy Cyr/WireImage.com. By the mid-2000s Tom Brady was the undisputed king of the gridiron. In 2002 he became the youngest quarterback in the history of the National Football League (NFL) to lead his team to a Super Bowl victory. Two years later, in 2004,...
1956 Weekly Gridiron Record 2 pages Oct 8, 1956 Twice-weekly publication distributed during the football season. Includes analyses, predictions, and statistics for the season on a week-by-week basis... 1962 NFL Record Manual 80 pages 1962 The official NFL guide, published under several differ...
The NFL’s All-Time Top 100 list isn’t just a collection of legendary names; it’s a pantheon of gridiron gods who redefined the game. But among these titans, one position reigns supreme – the quarterback. These signal-callers are the orchestrators, the maestros conducting symphony-like ...