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Today's Tidbit... The Last Heisman Winner without a Face Mask
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Timothy P. Brown
Sep 27, 2022
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Today's Tidbit... The Last Heisman Winner without a Face Mask
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Jay Berwanger, the first Heisman Trophy winner in 1936, broke his nose in high school, so he wore a face mask his entire career at the University of Chicago. But, of course, he was an earlier adopter who fit the pattern: most who wore face masks before the 1950s wore them to protect an injury, not to prevent one.

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