Printable View
Testing football helmets in 1912.
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...t_fullsize.jpg
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...801#post194200
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...869#post171363
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...260#post121569
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...966#post156854
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...255#post121553
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.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Mc...onderlic_scoreQuote:
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."
“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
That's what they call a Rockne hardness tester.