Varsity football players from 1956 to 1970 did not have an increased risk of degenerative brain diseases compared with athletes in other varsity sports, new research concludes. A Mayo Clinic study ...

Colby-Bates-Bowdoin football kicked off this past Saturday, but long before CBB there was the Maine State Series. With the University of Maine in the mix, the State Series ran from 1895 until the ...

Former India footballer Mohammed Zulfiqaruddin, who was part of the fourth place finishing team in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, passed away on Sunday. Zulfiqaruddin also represented India in the ...

Alan Killigrew born 27 Jan 1919 was a student at Christian Brothers College St Kilda when he was recruited to the Saints in 1938. He won St Kilda’s best and fairest in 1940 and represented Victoria in ...

A version of this story originally appeared in ‘Olympic Spirit: Australian reflections on the Olympic ideal’ (ed. Stephen Bourbon, Reclink 2004). 1956 was certainly a grand year for the Olympics, but ...

John Cresbaugh, The Montclair Times’ erstwhile sports editor, was beset with a perplexing dilemma, and one that was not easy to solve. It seems an enthusiastic group of former Montclair High football ...

“Hearts players leapt for joy and hugged their trainer in front of the stand, while the huge crowd roared and waved anything maroon they could lay their hands on,” reported the Evening News in the ...

Augsburg, Germany, Oct. 20, 1956: As the 511th Airborne Regiment Falcons prepared for the quarterfinals of the eight-team USAREUR football playoffs, their top rushing threat, Al “Yogi” Ybarra, posed ...