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 NCAA 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.
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, J