How many balls could a football foot, if a football could foot balls?

In today's episode, (our 50th WOW!!) worlds collide as the jocks and the nerds meld minds and the History Spelunkers becomes a sports podcast. Some of the issues we tackle in our conversation are as follows: How old are different sports? Does it makes sense for the United States to have their own football? Is soccer the better name? Can Kelvin pronounce indigenous names? Dive down the Rabbit hole to find out!!

SHOWNOTES:

• Episode art is a sketch of a Calcio Storico game from the 1600s, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
• Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
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• https://darwinshistoryofsoccer.weebly.com/history.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20121225025856/http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/history/the-game/origins.html
• Highest Scoring College Game: https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2024-09-14/georgia-tech-222-cumberland-college-0-history-weird-facts
• Highest Scoring College Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZzrsDJo-4&ab_channel=JonBois
• Aussie Rules: https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/australian-rules-football
• First College Football Game: https://scarletknights.com/sports/2022/7/25/sports-m-footbl-archive-first-game-html.aspx
• Medival Football -- Calcio Storico: https://italysegreta.com/calcio-storico/
• Italian Fascist Football -- Volata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie7y2DSkfW0&ab_channel=ArchivioLuceCinecitt%C3%A0
• Harpastrum: https://www.topendsports.com/sport/extinct/harpastum.htm
• Episkyros: https://www.britannica.com/sports/ball-sports#ref265840
• Eton Wall Game: https://www.etoncollege.com/news-and-diary/school-news/a-most-eton-sport-the-wall-game/
• Gaelic Football: https://www.gaa.ie/my-gaa/getting-involved/football-history-and-evolution
• Rugby: https://www.britannica.com/sports/rugby
• Modern Mob football: https://apnews.com/article/royal-shrovetide-ashbourne-ancient-soccer-murder-880658c923b33288df42af109d25e458
• Austus fusion sport: https://www.topendsports.com/sport/extinct/austus.htm

That is the question every man through time has faced. In today's episode we will delve into the social, political, and economic pressures that have influenced whether or not men as a class favor hair on their face throughout history.

Shownotes

• Episode Photo is of President Rutherford Hayes, POTUS with the longest beard, public domain accessed via Wikimedia Commons
• Sound clip is from an interview of the Duck Dynasty cast on Jimmy Kimmel Live show, from youtube
• Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-had-best-civil-war-facial-hair-180951965/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30037914
• https://daily.jstor.org/hair-gender-and-social-status-in-ancient-egypt/
• https://uk.bulldogskincare.com/blogs/news/when-in-rome-the-ancient-history-of-traditional-shaving#:~:text=Beards%20among%20Romans%20was%20revived,out%20of%20fashion%20ever%20since.
• https://www.grunge.com/790046/why-ancient-egyptians-shaved-all-their-hair/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30037914
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/3829878
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9555278/
• https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/a-brief-history-of-beards/
• https://www.truefittandhill.com/blogs/journal/history-of-beards-and-facial-hair
• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/beards-mustaches-weird-history
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stubble-and-statecraft-how-beards-grew-political
• https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/28/21077676/beard-change-politics-beto-orourke-al-gore-david-letterman-conan-obrien
• https://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2015/12/politicians-with-beards-000559/?slide=0
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_hair_in_the_military
• https://www.wou.edu/history/files/2015/08/Walsh-Devan.pdf
• https://www.indianamuseum.org/blog-post/whiskers-for-votes-or-why-abraham-lincoln-grew-a-beard/
• https://medium.com/@evgeny_o/why-the-greeks-grew-a-beard-while-the-romans-did-not-5d52a91c989#:~:text=The%20Romans%20believed%20that%20a,age%20solemnly%20shaved%20it%20off.
• https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Barba.html

Happy Holidays, History Spelunkers! What would you do to get your booze on? Well the cadets at the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point are apparently willing to do a lot...

Shownotes:

1. Episode art: The centennial of the United States Military academy at West Point, New York. 1802-1902, 1904, Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons
2. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/egg-nog-its-all-fun-and-games-until-someone-starts-a-holiday-riot-180949281/
3. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/university-of-virginia-riot-of-1836/