Today's Tidbit... Football's First Striped…

Football Archaeology

Mar 4

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In today's football, helmet decorations come in all stripes or, in Penn State's case, one stripe.

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Sports Dispatch

Mar 4

Great research! That couldn't have been easy

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Yes, so challenging that I missed one from my collection that I have now added as a postscript. Indiana wore striped helmets in 1917.

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