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Call for Participants | Noah Cohen: “The Football Helmet: A Cultural History of an American Icon” | Iowa Colloquium on Sport and Culture. Webinar on Zoom, February 17, 2023
The plastic safety helmet, developed for use in American football by sporting goods manufacturer Riddell in 1939, is, fundamentally, merely a piece of protective equipment. Originally designed to prevent skull fractures–devastating injuries that resulted in multiple fatalities through the first 60 years of football history—the new helmet quickly became much more than a means of injury protection.
