Vintage leather football helmets often as protective as modern helmets in common, game-like hits. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 11 ...

The 1890's saw the invention of the nose mask (1891), sew-on leather pads (mid-1890's), and the football helmet (1895). The use of the helmet in football is viewed by most as a significant advance ...

Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, Cleveland: Old-fashioned "leatherhead" football helmets from the early 1900s are often as effective as – and sometimes better than – modern football helmets at protecting ...

Researchers have compared the relative safety afforded by two 1930-vintage leather football helmets ... (Bartsch A et al. Impact test comparisons of 20th and 21st century American football helmets.

Cleveland Clinic researchers have said that old-fashioned leatherhead football helmets from the early 1900s are often as effective as modern football helmets.

At the same time, it’s worth noting that the vintage helmets tested were each about 80 years old, so their age might have meant weaker leather fibers than if pristine leatherheads had been tested.

It will go down as the best eBay purchase of Tim Horton’s life. A Green Bay Packers 1940s leather game worn helmet he bought for $499 in January sold for $33,600 during Heritage Auctions ...

— Illinois Football (@IlliniFootball) October 19, 2024 According to the team, the throwback helmets were hand-painted to "match the look of the Red Grange era leather helmets ," in a tribute to ...

In fact, kids might be just as well-served if football brought back the leather helmet. You never heard Red Grange complain of a headache. Of course, films were all silent back then.

Fans watching the Illinois-Michigan game Saturday may have noticed a vintage flair in the air. The game, which kicked off in at Memorial Stadium in Champaign Saturday afternoon, was "100 years in ...

To extend his football career, he wore a leather helmet. The first plastic helmet—the precursor to every modern football helmet—was made by John T. Riddell in 1939; the company he founded ...

Old-fashioned "leatherhead" football helmets from the early 1900s are often as effective as – and sometimes better than – modern football helmets at protecting against injuries during routine ...