By Allyn Freeman The two decades after the International Football Association’s rugby rules changes, gridiron football witnessed two parallel events that would significantly impact its future. The first was that the new five yards to retain possession produced a...
Walter Chauncey Camp, deservedly, earned the sobriquet “Father of American Football.” Without Camp’s changing the rules of rugby, and his doggedness in lobbying the Rules Committee of the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA) to vote for...
Last weekend’s 38-29 win over Rugby New York in Hoboken, New Jersey, would have meant plenty to all donning red, white and blue, but to Cam Davidowicz it brought up memories of the Boston-New York sports rivalries that he grew up watching. Born and raised in Essex...
By Joe Harvey “Everyone in the sun was burning up,” Mitch Wilson laughed. “We were all so pasty compared to LA. Around 60 minutes in, everyone was cramping, it was a tough one.” Following a trip to the west coast in order to play the LA Giltinis, Mitch Wilson is very...
by Allyn Freeman A magazine cartoon depicts two, tiny mammals peering out of foliage in the immediate aftermath of the meteor slamming into the Yucatan (Mexico) Peninsula sixty-six million years ago that eradicated the dinosaurs. One animal queries, “Hey, where...
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