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Temple’s Unbeaten Season Helped Give the First Sugar Bowl Its Start
Before the Sugar Bowl could become a New Year’s Day fixture, it needed something more immediate: two teams people would want to see play.
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Bert Bell’s Last Game Brought His Philadelphia Football Life Full Circle
Late in the Eagles’ game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on October 11, 1959, a Philadelphia crowd had reason to watch the field. Norm Van Brocklin’s touchdown pass to Tommy McDonald helped the Eagles pull ahead in a game they would win 28–24. Elsewhere in Franklin Field, an emergency was unfolding. Bert Bell, the NFL commissioner, had collapsed in the stands.
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Philadelphia’s Championship Stars Were Gone a Year Later
The Philadelphia Stars had barely finished celebrating their championship when the question of where they belonged began to change.
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Steve Van Buren Had to Get to Shibe Park Before He Could Win the Snow Bowl
Ray Didinger later recounted that Steve Van Buren saw the snow outside his bedroom, assumed the game would be postponed and went back to bed.
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Eagles Court Was Bigger Than Its Basement
The first defendant at Eagles Court wore a Starter jacket. He had been arrested at a football game and brought before a judge in a maintenance room beneath Veterans Stadium, where blue carpet and curtains offered a thin layer of courtroom decor. Outside, the Eagles were playing the Steelers.
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The Steagles Had Two Home Cities. Their Workweek Was the Harder Divide.
A wartime football merger put Philadelphia and Pittsburgh on one roster, but the players’ jobs kept them apart.
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The Flag That Gave Penn One More Kick—and Left Harvard Protesting
A disputed flag gave Penn another kick against Harvard—and one of the Ivy League’s most enduring finishes.