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Cool throwback football jerseys


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Go here for some very cool 1920s football jerseys based on the designs found in the film Leatherheads:

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Those look like sweatshirts. :blink:

I haven't been to the football HOF in Canton for a long time, but if I remember the stripes were strips of felt (?) stitched onto sweaters of wool or something similar. Not sure what their purpose was. Maybe they helped players grip the ball, but then what was the v-shaped strip around the collarbones for? Nobody carried the ball there.

The sweaters looked pretty tight-fitting compared to what you'd see at Dillard's or The Gap, for instance.

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On the original jerseys, those patches were made of leather and they helped to both hide the ball and keep it fimly grapsed to the body.

right...the Bears did this in their early days, as obviously did the Illini.

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