Today's Tidbit... Red Shirts, White Shirts, and Blue Shirts
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Today’s Tidbit title is a salute to Independence Day, but we will focus on redshirts and the fact that redshirts once wore red shirts. It all started with college teams needing reserve or second-, third-, and fourth-string teams to scrimmage in practice. Generally known as scrubs, Cornell had their scrub team wear red practice jerseys by 1917 and referred to the crew as the redshirts.
Today's Tidbit... Red Shirts, White Shirts, and Blue Shirts
Today's Tidbit... Red Shirts, White Shirts…
Today's Tidbit... Red Shirts, White Shirts, and Blue Shirts
Today’s Tidbit title is a salute to Independence Day, but we will focus on redshirts and the fact that redshirts once wore red shirts. It all started with college teams needing reserve or second-, third-, and fourth-string teams to scrimmage in practice. Generally known as scrubs, Cornell had their scrub team wear red practice jerseys by 1917 and referred to the crew as the redshirts.