The First Issue of CC

[Ken Crippen]

For those interested, I have posted a full version of the very first issue of "The Coffin Corner" on the PFRA website. You will see several redactions, which are the personal addresses of the people listed in the issue.

http://profootballresearchers.com/coffi ... n1Full.pdf

[JohnR]

Redactions, redactions, REDACTIONS! I'm so sick of trying to glean info from redactions!!!

[NWebster]

Redactions, redactions, REDACTIONS! I'm so sick of trying to glean info from redactions!!!

[TanksAndSpartans]

Thanks Ken - do you have the hard copy - in the comic book world, the #1 issues are worth quite a bit

I've seen that logo before on eBay - sometimes the old issues come up for sale.

[Ken Crippen]

Thanks Ken - do you have the hard copy - in the comic book world, the #1 issues are worth quite a bit

I've seen that logo before on eBay - sometimes the old issues come up for sale.

Unfortunately, not. Bob left me the PFRA archives when he passed and it was not in there. We got this scan from the HOF.

[TanksAndSpartans]

Too bad, maybe someday one will surface. It was a good read. I recognized one of the players on the All-Star team as having a football card - Doggie Trenchard.

[sluggermatt15]

Thanks for posting, Ken. This is an interesting piece of history. It's great to look back on the old days.

[ChrisBabcock]

George Bozeka had copies of this at the recent Buffalo area PFRA meeting. What I found interesting was that the CC actually preceded the founding of the PFRA. I always thought it was the other way around.... As in, the organization was founded and then someone said “Hey, we need a newsletter!”

[TanksAndSpartans]

The article about the 1898 All-Star game mentions Princeton and Penn styles and not knowing what this meant, I asked a college football expert. Just wanted to share his reply with the group because I thought the formations were pretty cool.

The jist of his reply is the Princeton style brought ends into the backfield:

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And George Woodruff, Yale Grad and later Penn coach devised "Guards Back":

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[rhickok1109]

The article about the 1898 All-Star game mentions Princeton and Penn styles and not knowing what this meant, I asked a college football expert. Just wanted to share his reply with the group because I thought the formations were pretty cool.

The jist of his reply is the Princeton style brought ends into the backfield:

_ends_back.jpg

And George Woodruff, Yale Grad and later Penn coach devised "Guards Back":

_guards_back.jpg

That is cool stuff. "A Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and Colleges," by A.A. Stagg and H.L. Williams (1893) is full of diagrams like that. Of course, that was before the offense was required to have at least 7 players on the line of scrimmage and backs were allowed to be moving forward when the ball was snapped.

https://ia600904.us.archive.org/9/items ... agiala.pdf