The Origins Of Player Numbers
Sometimes when you round the corner at a location you have visited many times before, you see something new. A similar feeling occurs when encountering a story that sheds new light on an old topic you’ve researched in the past. The other day, however, I found an article about Carlisle’s hidden ball trick, when Pop Warner had football-shaped brown patches sewn on the front of Carlisle’s uniforms for their 1902 game at Harvard. When Harvard kicked off, Carlisle retrieved the ball before the — www.footballarchaeology.com
The early beginnings and origins of the uniform numbers on players is explored in this Football Archaeology feature
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