From the 1922 Nicolet, Menasha High's Yearbook
This being the midst of football season, let's take a look back at Menasha's efforts in 1922 at restarting a high school football team after a layoff of many years, when it was deemed too dangerous a game. In an era of leather helmets and no face masks, except for the occasional leather noseguard that some would wear, there was nothing between a defender's forearm and a bloody (or broken) nose, or worse.
In a past blog post, we detailed the 1898 attempt at a football team and gave the back story of how President Theodore Roosevelt helped save the game in the early 1900's by gathering the football powerhouses of the day (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) to a meeting at the White House to modernize its rules in an attempt to minimize the violence:
http://menashabook.blogspot.com/2012/12/1898-menasha-high-football-team.html
In a past blog post, we detailed the 1898 attempt at a football team and gave the back story of how President Theodore Roosevelt helped save the game in the early 1900's by gathering the football powerhouses of the day (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) to a meeting at the White House to modernize its rules in an attempt to minimize the violence:
http://menashabook.blogspot.com/2012/12/1898-menasha-high-football-team.html
Great background story about football and Menasha and never knew any of it until reading your Blog. We need another book by you about Menasha!!!
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