they stopped using leather helmets in football in the 1970s.
they stopped using leather helmets in football in the 1970s.
when did they stop using leather helmets in football?
1970s
in 1939, the riddell company of chicago, illinois started manufacturing plastic helmets because it felt that plastic helmets would be safer than those made of leather. plastic was found to be more effective because it held its shape when full collision contact occurred on a play. these helmets were also much more comfortable and had more padding to cushion the head in an impact. included with the plastic helmet came plastic face mask, which allowed the helmet to protect the entire head. by the mid-1940s, helmets were required in the nfl. they were still made of leather, but with improved manufacturing techniques had assumed their more familiar spherical shape. the nfl initially allowed either plastic or leather helmets, but in 1948 the league outlawed the plastic helmet, considering the hard-plastic material to be an injury risk. the nfl repealed this rule in 1949, and by 1950, the plastic helmet had become universal in that league.
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in november 2011, the cleveland clinic center for spine health created an online study released by the "journal of neurosurgery" in which various football helmets were compared with each other via crash test dummies. it was also found that leather helmets provided similar results to modern helmets, and in some cases, the leather helmets proved to have superior protection against concussive blows. however, the leather helmets did not provide as much protection against skull fractures.









































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