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NIL IS AN OLD CONCEPT IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL

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The Early Days of College Football and the NCAA Demonstrated that the English Model of Amateurism was a Bad Fit for the United States

PITTSBURGH VS WEST VIRGINIA, COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S BACKYARD BRAWL, WAS THE FIRST COMMERCIAL RADIO BROADCAST IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Yale's JJ Hogan Was An Early Name, Image, & Likeness (NIL) Star In College Football

Florida Gators Legend Steve Spurrier Remembers Hula Bowl as First Time with Black Teammates

Georgia Tech's Hall of Fame Coach Bobby Dodd sent the Funniest Telegram in College Football History

Hemingway Wrote About the Notre Dame/USC Rivalry in his story 'The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio'

POP-ROCKS: POP WARNER & KNUTE ROCKNE THREATENED TO QUIT TO GET NEW STADIUMS AT PITT AND NOTRE DAME

Oklahoma Sooners' Legend Barry Switzer Talks NIL, the Football Monster, and Booing Quarterbacks

Red Grange, the Iceman, Helped Make the NFL Cool while Showing College Athletes How to Turn Pro

Loss of Physical Tickets to Sporting Events, and Art that went with Them, Not Just Sad but Dystopian

Bobby Bowden was One of College-Football's Greatest Chiefs: A Personal Remembrance of Florida State

Fear Came for College Football: NCAA's TV Takeover Created Conditions for Conference Re-Alignment

Pittsburgh Panthers' Players Turned Down 1938 Rose Bowl As National Champs, the Money Wasn't Right

Modern NCAA Conference Commissioner was Forged in Fiery Destruction of the Pacific Coast Conference

Hugo Bezdek Led Three Teams to Rose Bowl, Managed a Major League Baseball Club, & Coached in the NFL

1996 was an Iconic College Football Season Featuring Seminoles, Gators, & Cornhuskers at War

New Texas Longhorns Book says A&M Aggies Are Little Brother & Makes a Statistical Case

Infamous Fifth Down Game that Inspired 5th Down College Football Website was a Brouhaha for the Ages

University of Texas Defied Trends by Stepping Back to Consider Merits in "Eyes of Texas" Controversy

Haunted by an Error in First 'Game of the Century,' a Michigan Wolverines' Star Took His Own Life

Hayden Fry and Jerry LeVias Made the Southwest Conference Black and White and Shook Up the Old Order

Paul Bear Bryant's Last Magic was Spent on Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Crimson Tide Football

The Ballad of Walter Eckersall and the Snake Born Eating its Tail

Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, Where Big Ten Conference was Founded, Has Closed

Madness: Brawls, Riots, at 1937 Civil War Game as Ducks and Beavers Escalate a Feisty Rivalry

Oregon and Oregon State Drop 'Civil War' Name from Historic Rivalry for All the Wrong Reasons

NCAA Delays Vote on New Compensation and Transfer Rules, but Revolution Remains a Real Threat

Greed Comes for College Football: Knight Commission Recommends FBS Leave the N.C.A.A.

Georgia Tech's Destruction of Cumberland College in 1916 Wasn't Exactly As It Seemed

Auburn and Pat Dye is a Real College Football Story

Hayden Fry Classic: North Texas Mean Green Set to Honor Legendary Head Coach against SMU Mustangs

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5th Down College Football

5th Down College Football is a website built to host a book project.

The site itself is host to a collection of feature writing on the sport of college football, but it is also as an active headquarters for an upcoming book in which author Mark Schipper embarked on a national odyssey to attend many of the sport's greatest rivalries, visit its most historic campuses and stadiums, and connect w/its most important programs and greatest figures.

Schipper's two hypotheses were that CFB is inseparable from American history and culture in a unique way, which is a worthy subject on its own, and that the sport was on the verge of revolutionary change, which gave the mission urgency.

The book is being slated for release in the Spring of 2025.

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