TIFOs (“Things I Found Online”) are brief pieces in which students post the link to an article, a video, photo or other types of documents they found online that address a theme each student chose to follow during the course.

During the January 2014 J-Term, students and the instructor will post TIFOs dealing with the history and contemporary realities of football as part of the course Hist. 203, “Soccer, Race and Nationalism,” taught by Prof. Luis Figueroa-Martínez, Associate Professor of History, at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut.

Student TIFOs are usually related to the themes each student will explore in his or her final paper.

For example, in the case of the photo that appears above, while obtained from the Wikipedia Commons as public domain, the original image appears to have come from an article on Sheffield F.C. (football club) and the origins of “association football” in England in the mid-nineteenth century that was published in the BBC News website published in 2007.

The Sheffield F.C. is considered the oldest football club in the world. The article by the BBC provides more details about its origin and the role it played in the origins of modern “association” football in the mid-nineteenth century.