How has American football helmets and protectors evolved?

ByAndy Lederer

Speaking of popular sports in Japan is baseball and football, but American football is popular anyway. American football's largest professional league NFL (National Football League) is proud of the popularity surpassing MLB (baseball), NBA (basketball), NHL (ice hockey) which are said to be the four major professional sports leagues in North America.

The prototype of American football was football introduced from the UK, and eventually close to the rugby rule was introduced, and in 1874 it became the present format. There were also many injured people because of hard play, and the mind of abolition increased in the 1930s, but it was decided to survive by armor maintenance and rule revision by president Franklin Roosevelt at the time.

I will follow the history of such American foot helmet and protector evolution.
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It is 1885 years that the first professional game of American football was held, so its history will be 125 years indeed. Meanwhile, the improvement of brace has been steadily improved. Because American football is a very hard sports with many contacts with the body compared with sports such as baseball and basketball, because inevitably injured people are constantly dying in some cases. According to the current rules, it is mandatory to equip a helmet, shoulder pad, knee pad, Saipad, hip pad, mouthpiece, uniform, and incomplete it is foul.

Very early gear. I do not have a helmet yet, I feel that there are not so many pads.


The first helmet was developed in 1896, but in 1905 there were 19 people in the accident who died in accident.


A long leather helmet was used, but in 1939 a plastic helmet was developed.


Uniforms of the 40s and 50s. Appearance of a plastic helmet almost seems to be the same as it is now.


60 - 70 's. The face guard part of the helmet is evolving considerably.


In 2002, the side of the helmet expanded, it became a shape that can protect the face more.


List image is here. It is quite oblong.


It is a matter of course that it is dangerous because players with such physical body collide with each other. It is quite difficult to guarantee safety while being exciting, are not they?

ByThe Brit_2