Today's Tidbit... Class Football Team Jerseys

Back when football players did not wear numbers on the front of their jerseys to identify themselves, they sometimes wore numbers on the front of their jerseys to identify their class.

The freshmen team at an unidentified Pennsylvania college defeated the sophomore team 10-0. (RPPC)

It was not until the late 1920s that players wore numbers on the front of the jersey to distinguish themselves. (Players first wore numbers on the back of their jerseys in 1905, but they were few and far between until the mid-1910s.)