Football might be the world’s favourite sport today, but its early days were anything but beautiful. Greg takes us back to medieval Britain, when football was a chaotic town-wide scramble played on ...

The history of college football abroad goes back further than many realize. International games are almost as old as the sport itself. The first was a two-game series in 1874 between Harvard and ...

College football bowl games are a sports staple every holiday season. Learn more about their evolution since the first Rose ...

On college campuses during the 19th century, sporting events were becoming increasingly frequent. Most were student-led affairs with few rules. Violence was common. As one Yale student wrote in a poem ...

Army captured the first Commander-in-Chief's Trophy in 1972, and has an opportunity to win another with a win vs. Navy on ...

The two most fabled decades in English popular culture are, almost without question, the 1960s and the 1990s. Those periods represented peaks for the nation’s two major obsessions: music and football.

College football’s postseason structure has been evolving since the sport’s inception in 1869, and the current model—the CFP—may not be done growing just yet. Ohio State captured the first 12-team ...

Glenn C. Altschuler and David Wippman consider the challenges of controlling commercialization in their review of Eric A. Moyen and John R. Thelin’s College Sports: A History. In College Sports: A ...

The University of Duke has had its changes when it comes to sports. When people think about the Duke Blue Devils, the first thing that comes to mind is the basketball team. But the Duke Football team ...