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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Football Jerseys with Emblems

Timothy P. Brown

Jul 25, 2023

Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discussed a recent TidBit about teams wearing emblems on their jerseys.

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Here’s the original Tidbit:

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Today's Tidbit... Football Jerseys with Emblems

Timothy P. Brown

May 14

Today's Tidbit... Football Jerseys with Emblems

Early football teams often had the school letter or letters on their jerseys, and the first numbers on football uniforms arrived in 1905. But it was not until 1937 that the NCAA required teams to wear numbers on the front and back of their jerseys. Some conferences required numbers earlier than that, but failing to specify the types of numbers, coaches …

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