Early Football Helmets Were Super Effective Against Brick Walls

Because nothing sells a new helmet design like blunt forcefulness hurt , this wild - haired discoverer demonstrates the head - small-arm ’s protection against be adrift the old fashioned direction — being bludgeoned by a local football club and melt headlong into walls .

modernistic football helmet growing began in the 1920 ’s with padded leather skull caps , however , these quickly proved too thin and ineffective against unvoiced striking . Hard helmet test and evolve slow throughout the 1930 ’s , such as this one in 1932 , until the Riddell Company debuted the hard moldable helmet in 1938 . Face masks were subsequently contribute during the fifties to keep down the identification number of rugged noses and tooth . By the nineties , toilsome charge plate had been replaced by polycarbonate and more late design have been adapt to supply enhanced concussion protection . [ British Pathe , Wikipedia ]

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