Biggest Football Cover Up
The following are words I never thought I’d write: this story concerns the early days of tarpaulins covering football fields. Like many stories you read here, I came across it while reviewing an article about another topic (coaching clinics in the 1920s) when I spotted a neighboring article with an interesting headline, in this case: — www.footballarchaeology.com
Timothy P Brown uncovers a story about covers that kept the gridiron fields dry during in-climate weather. The hay, sawdust, tarpaulins, tarps, and everything in between in this history of football field protection.
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