Red Grange, the Iceman, Helped Make the NFL Cool while Showing College Athletes How to Turn Pro
By Mark Schipper THE ICEMAN GOES PRO Barely five minutes after the gun sounded that cold November day in Columbus, the brightest comet...
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Mark Schipper
- Jul 30, 2021
Fear Came for College Football: NCAA's TV Takeover Created Conditions for Conference Re-Alignment
By Mark Schipper Within the next four years, whenever the universities of Texas and Oklahoma are allowed to fly from the Big 12 and...
Mark Schipper
- Jul 23, 2021
Pittsburgh Panthers' Players Turned Down 1938 Rose Bowl As National Champs, the Money Wasn't Right
By Mark Schipper "The only high-school in the country that gives a college degree," Upton Sinclair Pitt lost 24-straight games to Big Ten...
Mark Schipper
- Jul 2, 2021
Modern NCAA Conference Commissioner was Forged in Fiery Destruction of the Pacific Coast Conference
By Mark Schipper George Kliavkoff, a major operator in digital-television and a sports-entertainment executive at MGM Resorts...
Mark Schipper
- May 4, 2021
Infamous Fifth Down Game that Inspired 5th Down College Football Website was a Brouhaha for the Ages
The infamous Fifth Down Game between Colorado and Missouri is part of college football's living history, and helped name this website.
Mark Schipper
- Apr 7, 2021
University of Texas Defied Trends by Stepping Back to Consider Merits in "Eyes of Texas" Controversy
By Mark Schipper The Eyes of Texas, a cultural pillar at the Lone Star State's flagship university, and a song with tenuous linkages to...
Mark Schipper
- Feb 11, 2021
The Ballad of Walter Eckersall and the Snake Born Eating its Tail
By Mark Schipper There’s no shattered visage on the ground next to Walter Eckersall’s grave marker at Oak Woods cemetery, but the lone...
Mark Schipper
- Feb 1, 2021
Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, Where Big Ten Conference was Founded, Has Closed
By Mark Schipper A strange sort of desolation has settled over the legendary Palmer House in the heart of Chicago’s downtown Loop, the...
Mark Schipper
- Jan 17, 2021
NCAA Delays Vote on New Compensation and Transfer Rules, but Revolution Remains a Real Threat
By Mark Schipper College athletics under the NCAA’s rule have become a Byzantine mess, which the current push to grant student-athletes...
Mark Schipper
- Dec 12, 2020
Greed Comes for College Football: Knight Commission Recommends FBS Leave the N.C.A.A.
Some time while you're looking out over the television strip-mining camps that blight the otherwise handsome landscape of college...
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