Today's Tidbit... The Ugliest Uniforms Ever

I have written before about the ugliest uniforms in football history. I declared the 1930s as the decade with the ugliest uniforms. I noted that BYU would have been better off had they not installed lights in 1940 since the darkness would have prevented their fans from seeing their ugly uniforms.

However, I believe a new level of ugliness has been identified in the form of the 1921 Stanford team. Like many of the era, they plastered their jersey chest and sleeves with friction strips (aka stickem or stickum cloth) to reduce fumbling. Also, like others, the functionality of the friction strips was overtaken by the aesthetics, but Stanford took things to a new level, and it was not a good thing.

Stanford’s 1921 football team. (1923 Stanford Quad)