When it comes to protecting football players ... actually may be a reason to examine helmet designs other than the current hard shell, with a face mask and really stiff interior padding, and ...

Long gone are the days of the leather shell and single-bar face mask. Today’s football helmets are technological marvels, using cutting-edge materials and design elements to make the headgear ...

Riddell’s Revolution helmet Riddell In the early 1900s, soft leather ... single bar face mask was the invention of Paul Brown, the first coach of Cleveland’s professional football team ...

The NFL is over 100 years old, meaning the league has witnessed helmet designs ranging from leather to modern helmets ... Like the Cowboys, the silver face mask works with the silver helmet.

I went to the tryouts for football and reported ... but worst of all was the Leather Helmet, circa 1940’s, with no chin strap, nor face mask. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword ...

Riddell Company of Chicago introduced the first plastic football helmet. In addition to being stronger than leather models ... with adding the first face mask, also plastic, in 1940 and moving ...

Sometime around 1937 when he was 12-years-old Frank Graham, Jr. received a special gift from his father, a prominent New York sports writer: a very early hard-shell football helmet. During his ...

In the late 1800s you mainly saw plain leather head caps ... the purple and gold of college football. The current helmet logo first appeared in 1979. the face mask was changed form white to ...

For 10 years, Greg Batt and John DesJardins have been systematically whacking, dropping and ramming athletic helmets to gauge ... and butter of the CHIP Lab is football. Remy, the nicknamed ...

Riddell’s Revolution helmet Riddell In the early 1900s, soft leather ... single bar face mask was the invention of Paul Brown, the first coach of Cleveland’s professional football team ...

When it comes to football ... numbers on their helmets, the best version of their design is the minimalist approach—just the lightning bolt and the vibrant yellow face mask.