Uniform Emblems

In this epsiode Timothy P. Brown takes us back in time to an era when football teams displayed their team logo front and center.

Back in May of 2023 FootballArchaeology.com released a great post in its Daily Tidbits titled, Football Jerseys with Emblems. The author, Timothy Brown spun us back in time to when American football jerseys looked very similar to the hockey sweaters of the era, as many had a big team logo right smack in the middle of the chest of the player uniform jersey. Here is a look at Tim's original post.

Football Jerseys with Emblems

Timothy P. Brown sets the Football Archaeology sights on the front and center jersey emblems of early football.and the exciting period in gridiron lore that they appeared.

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Football teams from 1915 through 1936 had pretty much all control as to what was on their uniforms. The numbers did not go in the front of them until officially in 1937 per NCAA rules. The letter designations of the school, were common since the early days of stocking cap era football, but the school logo, that was a new innovation in the World War I era and after brand of the game.

Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons 1924 Notre Dame Players; Don Miller, Harry Stuhldreher, Jim Crowley, Elmer Layden, (The Four Horsemen.)

Here is a great example that our friend R.C. Christiansen sent of the 1932 Moorhead State Teachers College football team

Tim shared with us the decorative friction strips that were so popular in the 1920s, and how teams placed them in patterns on the jerseys, not only for an aesthetic purpose but to help runners hang on to the ball.

Image is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of the 1923 Colorado Silver and Gold football team.

Historic photograph Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of Harold "Hal" Mefford from the University of Chicago's yearbook, 1905

Special thanks to Wikimedia Commons for their courtesy in supplying the images from their vast inventory. 

1924 Notre Dame Players; Don Miller, Harry Stuhldreher, Jim Crowley, Elmer Layden, (The Four Horsemen.)

Historic photograph of Harold "Hal" Mefford from the University of Chicago's yearbook, 1905

The information above has been generated based on the fine research work courtesy of Timothy P. Brown and his FootballArchaeoloogy.com website.