Today's Tidbit... Helmet-Tossing Trickeration

In A History of the Football, I mention that stripes were added to footballs for two primary reasons. One was the desire to make the ball more visible under the poor lighting conditions of the 1920s and 1930s. The second reason was that teams wearing brown or white uniforms gained a camouflage advantage when playing with a plain brown or white ball.

There was another aspect of the camouflage issue of the late 1920s that a reader, Carter Claiborne, mentioned coming across in a game played two deca...