Sometime around 1937 when he was 12-years-old Frank Graham, Jr. received a special gift from his father, a prominent New York sports writer: a very early hard-shell football helmet. During his ...

Illinois debuts incredible vintage football helmets for Illinois-Michigan game The throwback, brown helmets were hand-painted to "match the look of the Red Grange era leather helmets," in a ...

Researchers have compared the relative safety afforded by two 1930-vintage leather football helmets ... (Bartsch A et al. Impact test comparisons of 20th and 21st century American football helmets.

Football helmets used to be made of leather and weren't mandatory in the NFL until 1943. Scoreboards used to be manually operated. Football audiences dressed more formally than they do now. Visit ...

Former SU All-American Joe Ehrmann's helmet returned 40 years after it was lost in a brawl. ... As Ehrmann opened the container, he was jolted by a blast of vintage orange. It was a football helmet.

Vintage leather football helmets often as protective as modern helmets in common, game-like hits. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 11 ...

Fans watching the Illinois-Michigan game Saturday may have noticed a vintage flair in the air. The game, which kicked off in at Memorial Stadium in Champaign Saturday afternoon, was "100 years in ...

Herrera showed me the leather helmet, the bright green Rock Island jersey, and the large melon-shaped 1920 football. He thought he hooked me that afternoon, but I was actually all-in the moment I ...

The first plastic helmet—the precursor to every modern football helmet—was made by John T. Riddell in 1939; the company he founded still dominates the industry today.