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| Volume One |
The Chicago Maroons |
Sept. 2008 |
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| Leather Helmet Illustrated takes a look back at one of football’s most amazing teams, the Chicago Maroons. With seven conference titles and one national championship, the University of Chicago was a power in the Big Ten Conference. Led by the legendary coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons built a lasting legacy. Much of what we now consider to be football was invented at Chicago. Chicago gave up football in 1939, and their story is largely forgotten. Although the memory of the Maroons has faded into history, the influence of the Chicago Maroons lives on. Leather Helmet Illustrated celebrates the history of the Maroons with four articles. Also check out our monthly feature: Fun Facts. |
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| Volume Two |
The Carlisle Indians |
Oct. 2008 |
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| Leather Helmet Illustrated remembers the Carlisle Indians. Jim Thorpe, and ‘Pop’ Warner, two of the biggest names in the history of the sport, found glory at Carlisle: Thorpe as one of the greatest athletes of all time, and Warner as one of the most influential coaches. There is more to the story of the Carlisle Indians than these two men. It is the story of an all Indian football team, born with the backdrop of Wounded Knee, that went from being a curiosity to one of the biggest draws in sports, in an astonishingly short period of time. Carlisle fielded teams that played an entertaining brand of football, and produced many great stars. As the Indian students learned the ways of the white man, they introduced the rest of country to modern football, with ‘Pop’ Warner’s Single Wing and Double Wing formations. |
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| Volume Three |
Watching Away Games Before TV |
Oct. 2009 |
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| Long before there was TV or radio, sports fans thirsted for instant information when their favorite teams played on the road. Fans would crowd into telegraph offices to hear the news as the game unfolded. Soon more sophisticated methods of following the action evolved. Different methods took root in different places. Some resembled the modern close circuit TV broadcast, and gave the audience a visual picture of what was going on. |
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| The Galloping Ghost’s Phantom Run |
| When the Huskers opened their season against the University of Illinois, it was an historical game for several reasons. It was the first Nebraska game to be broadcast on the radio, and the first to be depicted on the Grid-graph. Of even greater importance, it featured the varsity debut of one of the footballs greatest heroes, ‘the Galloping Ghost’, ‘Red’ Grange. |
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| Volume Four |
The Fainting Irish of Notre Dame |
Dec. 2009 |
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On Nov. 21, 1953, Notre Dame was on top of the polls and undefeated. The football season nearing its end. The Irish faced a tough road test when they took on the Iowa Hawkeyes. At the end of the day they would keep their unbeaten streak in tact, but add a little tarnish to the Golden Dome. |
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