Brown Mini Replica Leather Football Helmet from Past Time Sports

Size is about 6 inches tall x 4 1/2 inches wide. 100% Leather !E All helmets come in the History Of the Helmet Box which outlines the evolution of the leather football helmet and its history. 1/3 scale. Past Time Sports' Mini-Glory helmets are also hand stitched, hand sewn and hand tooled 100% leather. This unique replica is modeled after a museum sample from football's vintage years. It has been carefully handcrafted, hand-tooled and hand sewn of 100% rich leather - created like the old helmets. From the outside bands and ear moldings to the inside padded structure, each helmet is styled to match a helmet of the 1920's and 30's Golden Age of football. As an heirloom of One for the Gipper days, theses Legendary Helmets symbolize our county at its best - in competitiveness, toughness, and the never give up spirit of our American way and football heritage. NOTE: HELMET DOES NOT COME WITH A CHIN STRAP AND IS NOT TO BE USED FOR COMPETITIVE PLAY. A History and Tradition Over 100 Years Old The leather football helmet has it's origin more than 100 years ago first worn in an 1893 Army-Navy game. An Annapolis shoemaker created the first helmet for Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves, who had been advised by a Navy doctor that he would be risking death or instant insanity if he took another kick to the head. Greats of the Game and the Leather Helmet Names like the Galloping Ghost - Red Grange, Knute Rockne - one for the Gipper, Bronco Nagurski, Jim Thorpe (the great Indian player), the Four Horseman of Notre Dame and more others each elicit deep seated memories and nostalgia of the great beginnings and heart of football legend. They all wore helmets similar to this one. The Golden Era The helmet as we know it today and along its 100 year path has undergone many changes. Amazingly enough, Helmets were not mandatory until the late 1930's. Most of the 1890-1915 games actually played with out helmets. It was not unusual to see half of the early players with helmets and half without. Around W.W.I the helmets were so flimsy that they were often mistaken as aviator caps. Year by year more padding was added and in the 1920's thru 1940's, considered the Golden Age of college, pro and high school football, helmets like this one, were the fashion of the game. Nearly all of the games played in this era were played with unadorned leather helmets---logos and color were not used. Eventually, as great rivalries grew, some colleges, & high schools began to hand-paint their helmets. C