Gear in American Football changed over the years and I will be talking about the helmet and shoulder pads.The first helmet used was made out of mole skin.The first helmet used in football was in 1893 in the Army-Navy game.The helmet was made to prevent head injuries or etc.Helmets back then were made of leather straps and moleskin.A Chicago sportings goods company named Riddell patented the first plastic helmet.Shoulder pads were first designed in 1877 by a guy named L.P. smock.The first pads were said to be made out of leather and wool.Shoulder pads were used as different equipment due to how they were designed.
The ball is an essential element of the game of football.The ball was made out of pig bladder back then.The ball was designed to look like a watermelon shape ball.The first leather football came in 1887.A Boston Red Sox pitcher named Spalding was the first one to introduce the leather ball with complete lacing.The first ball to be used was in the game Rutgers vs Princeton.The science of the ball was adding more aerodynamic in the ball for the