Trivia: Football helmets were originally made of what material?
Styrofoam
Cotton
Leather
Rubber
The correct answer is Leather
So why is this answer correct? : One story traces the roots of the leather helmet to the 1893 Army-Navy football game. Admiral Joseph Mason Reeve had been warned by doctors that another hit to the head could lead to serious medical issues. Not wanting to miss the competition, Reeve asked his shoemaker to fashion him a lightly padded moleskin hat with earflaps. Plastic helmets weren’t developed until decades later in 1939. Helmets, plastic or leather, were not mandatory in football until 1943.