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Sources are unsure as to who first designed air bladders for football helmets but Dr. Richard Schneider of the University of Michigan Hospital is reported to have believed that air was the most effective way to protect against blunt force. With this theory in mind, he invented an inflatable bladder for use inside a football helmet.
A football helmet is a type of protective headgear used mainly in gridiron football, although a structural variation has occasional use in Australian rules football.It consists of a hard plastic shell with thick padding on the inside, a face mask made of one or more plastic-coated metal bars, and a chinstrap.
Football helmets bear the logo of the team and the team colors. By the mid-1980s, the football helmet had become a complex, highly engineered piece of equipment. The inside of the helmets was lined with foam padding and plastic pods, or an inflatable layer designed to absorb the shock of impact and create as tight as fit as possible.
In 1988 the Penn State football helmet took on its final form. The dark gray facemask was replaced with a blue facemask, matching the stripe down the middle of the helmet, and this has been Penn ...
Unlike their pants and other parts of their uniforms, NFL players do get to choose which helmet they wear — as long as it meets guidelines set by the league. In April, the NFL, in partnership ...
A full-size replica of the 1933 Michigan State gold and black winged helmet. Early football helmet designs incorporated panels of leather, which were sometimes manufactured using strips of contrasting color. The Indiana and Michigan State football teams also adopted variations on the design. Michigan State's helmet used a colored stripe ...
The Army-Navy game of 1893 saw the first documented use of a football helmet by a player in a game. Joseph M. Reeves had a crude leather helmet made by a shoemaker in Annapolis and wore it in the game after being warned by his doctor that he risked death if he continued to play football after suffering an earlier kick to the head. [64]
The best helmet in college football right now has been named and it comes from a school in the Big Ten. 247Sports put together the top 25 helmets in the game and Ohio State stood alone at the top.