Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Winged Helmet Variations
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discussed a recent TidBit about the origins of winged leather helmets. Although almost every team that uses the winged-helmet look today uses a particular wing design, there were many winged variations back in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Here’s the original Tidbit:
Today's Tidbit... Variations on the Winged Helmet Theme
A team wearing winged helmets plays in the Big Ten Championship game tonight. That team, which goes unnamed by people in Ohio, began wearing their version of winged helmets when Fritz Crisler brought the look with him from Princeton in 1937. Nowadays, it seems like every team wearing winged helmets models them after Princeton, Michigan, and Delaware, but…
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