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1890--1915 games were actually played without helmets. and half without.
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the first football helmet was made in 1893 and was used in a army vs navy game
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a shoemaker made the first football for Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves who was in the navy. Navy doctors said he would die if he got hit or kicked in the head
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Later in 1896 Lafayette College halfback George Barclay feared the fabled cauliflower ear on his “hearing organs”, which he felt was a direct cause of playing bare-headed His design was a special headgear which was held to his head by three heavy leather straps fashioned by a harness maker, thus giving the first football helmets
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year by year around 1920s threw 1940s they added more padding to protect people from head injurys
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idea was that the simple colors, in the first days of the forward pass, it made it easier for people to know who is doing the throwing or running or catching
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the rams was the first team to create a logo to put on the football helmet
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around the 1950 the made the chin strap for the helmets and the helmets wasnt made out of leather no more
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10 years pasted and the face mask was created
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20 years have pasted and all college and NFL football teams had they own logos made to put on the helmets with face mask and chin straps with more padding
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newer helmets came out in the 2000s for everyteam and they upped something every year to improve the safety for players
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over the pasted years the helmets have been improved more and more change of design and even change of padding in the helmets to protect the human head helmets such as DNAs, Revaluations, and schutt, ion even revo speeds and revo speed 360
