Editor’s note: Throughout the offseason, The Athletic is celebrating the 150th anniversary of college football, one decade at a time. For more on the 1930s, read Michael Weinreb on the rise of ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Only once in the 125 seasons of Big Ten football has the league punished a school so severely it was not allowed to call itself a member. That was Iowa in 1930. In an era when every ...

Alabama’s breakthrough years of 1925-26, which resulted in Rose Bowl appearances and celebrated national championships, were difficult to reproduce over the next three seasons, much to the chagrin of ...

As the Wolverines gear up for a run at another national title with its first-ever appearance in the College Football Playoff, MLive is looking back at some of the best University of Michigan players ...

Before his first season as Central’s head football coach, George W. McCoy hired Willard Millsaps as an assistant coach. Millsaps, a former Soddy High star athlete, had previously coached all sports at ...

During the 1930 football season, the University football team played to a total attendance of 356,294 people, a total that is 53,895 less than last year. This attendance record was made public by C. F ...

I tested a 1930 World Cup football & compared it to the 2026 football. Who will win this challenge? Thank you for watching! : ...

The tournament had its first from French man Lucien Laurent scoring the first ever goal in the tournament, incidentally against Mexico.

And so, on 13th July 1930, two years after the decision to hold a new tournament had been made, football gave birth to the World Cup. None of the home nations participated in the first World Cup.