In 1969 the Pearl High football team made the controversial decision not to participate in the inaugural TSSAA state playoffs opting instead to become the first all-Black school to play in the Clinic ...

The photo of the 1969 Wesleyan University football squad shows 52 players with Beatles-style haircuts, some with mustaches and long sideburns, all in rows against the green slopes of Foss Hill. That ...

#MACtion is going retro this weekend. As part of the celebrations on campus to honor the undefeated 1969 football team, Toledo is breaking out their throwback uniforms from the era on Saturday as they ...

The 1969 Topps football was the final set released before the AFL-NFL merger. It is one of the most recognizable football sets created. Here are six essential cards from the set. The 1969 Topps ...

The 1969 college football season was special. It contained some of the more memorable and dramatic moments in the sport’s history. This was the first year of Bo Schembechler’s coaching tenure at ...

Saint Francis University Communications Professor Pat Farabaugh is currently writing a book on Penn State undefeated 1969 football season. It was the last game of the 1968 season — the Orange Bowl ...

College football’s centennial year, 1969, also happened to be my senior season at Notre Dame. I played against three teams that year—Georgia Tech, Tulane, and then Texas in the Cotton Bowl—that had ...

The Minnesota Vikings front four of Jim Marshall (70), Carl Eller (81), Alan Page (88), and Gary Larsen (77), were known as the "Purple People Eaters" and formed the heart of a fearsome defense.

Whatever George Cervenka was doing on the corner of Route 87 and Auburn Road, it’s a shame it couldn’t have been bottled up for future use. Entering his seventh season as Newbury football coach in ...

WORCESTER — Where the Luth Athletic Complex now sprawls across Holy Cross’ upper campus, the HC football practice field once was, and in late August 1969, the Crusaders, enthusiastic and expectant for ...