We have all seen some crazy uniforms out lately on the gridiron. The artistic expression of multi-colored uniforms and adornments makes your head spin as teams and stores are looking for new team-related jerseys to market. This is not anything new, and today we go into a recent piece on the Football Archaeology website where Timothy Brown discovered some oddly colored gridiron jersey numbers of the past.
Multi Colored Digits
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Introduction
A recent article from Tim on the unique feature of jersey numbers from Cal Tech, which were split and patterned with two different sets of colors spawned this discussion with the author to get the details on to why they did it.
Two-Tone and Split Jersey Numbers
Timothy Brwon of Football Archaeology found some images of two-tone colored football jersey numbers and dug up some history on these unique features from the past.More about our guest and his projects
Tim Brown is a great resource of information on a weekly basis here but daily on FootballArchaeology.com. Here is more about Tim and his projects that I think you should check out.
Football Archaeology
Timothy Brown's FootballArchaeology.com is a website dedicated to preserving pigskin history. digs into gridiron history to examine how football’s evolution shapes today's game. The site has a variety of articles, history of football word origins, and Daily Tidbits, which have a daily football factoid that shares some quite interesting items and aspects of the gridiron in a short read. They preserve football history in a very unique way Visit the site at Today's Tidbits.
Timothy P Brown
Tim Brown, one of the foremost experts on early college football, is the host and founder of FootballArchaeology.com. Tim's love of the gridiron's past goes beyond just the website. Mr Brown, to date, is the author of three books on football history, appears on various football history podcasts, and has been quoted in articles by The Athletic, The Chicago Tribune, and other publications. He guest authors articles on UniWatch, and his research on the 1920s West Point Cavalry Detachment teams contributed to All American: The Power of Sports, currently on display at the National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C.His books include: Fields of Friendly Strife; How Football Became Football: 150 Years of the Game's Evolution; and Hut! Hut! Hike! A History of Football Terminology, which explores the history of football’s words and expressions and how they became connected to the game.
Special Thanks
A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: Timothy Brown and his FootballArchaeology.com website.