Testing football helmets in 1912 - photo

[Altair]

Testing football helmets in 1912.




Previously:

Hard hat safety demonstration - GIF
Motorcycle helmet cutaway - photo
Motorcyclist airbag activates in MotoGP race - GIF and patent
Bro hug activates inflatable helmet - GIF
Drying a football field with helicopters - GIF

[mklotz]

It's not well known but this is how football players are selected.

If they can be convinced to run head-first into a wall, they're dumb enough to play football. Relative rankings are established by measuring the depth of the dents in the wall.

[Jon]

There's actually some truth to that. They use the Wonderlic IQ exam to test incoming NFL players, and too high of a score is a detriment. There was an NFL punter in the 1970s who was a cum laude Harvard grad (U.S. history), and got a perfect Wonderlic score. He said that his high score hurt his position.

McInally claims it hurt, rather than enhanced, his position in the draft because "coaches and front-office guys don't like extremes one way or the other, but particularly not on the high side. I think they think guys who are intelligent will challenge authority too much."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Mc...onderlic_score

[neilbourjaily]

“He’s [Gerald Ford] a nice guy but he played too much football with his helmet off.”

― Lyndon B. Johnson
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/926...-he-played-too

[owen moore]

That's what they call a Rockne hardness tester.