Timothy Brown of Football Archaeology joins us again this week to educate us on another aspect of football. This week we chat about the evolution of the helmets and more player equipment.
Helmet Composition Evolution
From Leather to Plastic, the Football Archaeology of Helmets with Timothy Brown
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Helmet changes
The history of the players equipment is sometimes very interesting and crucial to the development of the game itself. In the podcast episode above historian Timothy P. Brown explains some of the evolution of helmet composition changes and evolution and how they protected players.
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Credits
A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: Timothy Brown and his FootballArchaeology.com website.
Banner photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of Photograph of University of Michigan athlete Tom Harmon,#98 with ball, running for touchdown against Yale in 1939