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Today's Tidbit... Football’s Ugliest Uniforms: The 1930s

Timothy P. Brown
May 15, 2022
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Someone vandalized the uniforms worn by Idaho’s 1926 freshman team -check out the guy sitting far left with two sock styles. But their uniforms were only an appetizer for the ungodly mishmash of stripes and colors that descended on the football world in the 1930s, yielding the nastiest decade of uniforms in the game’s history. Feast your eyes on the images in the following article.

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The 1930s and Football’s Ugliest Uniforms
Numerous articles opine about college football's best uniforms, and you can agree or disagree with those lists, but this article is different. It describes and illustrates how college football teams in the 1930s collectively wore the ugliest uniforms in the game's glorious history. The evidence of ugliness is clear, and as Kevin Bacon once said, "These are the facts of the case, and they are undisputed…
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