As the authors of the only perfect season, the 1972 Miami Dolphins deserve a special place in NFL history and it's going to be recognized throughout this season, 50 years after the remarkable ...
It was the era of Nixon and ’Nam, of protests and countercultural movements. And somewhere, somehow, in a small, placid town, a college football team forgot how to lose. There we were in Sports ...
The Dolphins will pay tribute to perfection Sunday. And greatness. More specifically, they will honor the team recently selected as the greatest team of all time: the 1972 Miami Dolphins. The only ...
BAY CITY, MI-- They had basketball on the brain. But, in the fall of 1972, their hearts belonged to football. In the early years of Bay City All Saints, basketball was a way of life -- and it showed ...
How’s this for trash talk: weeks before Burkburnett High’s Bulldogs began practicing for their 1972 football opener, a 78-year-old resident of nearby Wichita Falls marched onto their field, planted a ...
The 1972 season began with an unprecedented move that no one saw coming. The promising offensive coordinator, Emory Bellard, decided to leave Texas and join fellow rival, Texas A&M, as their new head ...
Where were you in ’72? If you were a Swampscott Big Blue football fan, you were following one of the greatest teams and one of the greatest high school football stories in the history of Massachusetts ...
This is the fourth in a series about the 16 triumphant teams in the European Championship before the 17th edition is played in Germany next year. So far, we’ve looked at the USSR in 1960, Spain in ...
They called him Captain Crunch, and the name was fitting. Mike Kolen packed a punch. Now, 45 years after the Dolphins' No-Name Defense ran through the 1972 season undefeated, Kolen and his perfect ...
Part 5 in a series on Kent State's greatest football team, Jack Lambert played one of the best sequences Nick Saban ever saw. One of the great acts of the early 1970s was the old man on a tightrope.
TO TRULY GRASP THE importance of the 1972 Washington State football season, says Tom Poe, who was a star junior linebacker on that club, you must understand the six years leading up to it. "Two years ...
The N.F.L. is celebrating its only team to go through an entire season without losing. That glory came at a cost as several of the team’s prominent players were found to have C.T.E. Credit...Nate Fine ...