Whistle used by Football Referee Red Friesell
date: label: date made
content: ca 1944
notes: label: Description
content: Referee William <i>Red</i> Friessell used this whistle during one of the seven Army-Navy football games that he officiated. A former diver at Princeton Unversity, Beginning in 1922, Freissel officated for 22 years, becoming best known for his (acknowledged) mistake in a 1940 matchup between Dartmouth and Cornell, a contest now known as <i>the fifth down game</i>l. An official in 575 professional and collegiate contests, Friessel is represented at the Professional Football Hall of Fame in Canton, OH.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport or game
content: Football
label: level of sport
content: College
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Edwin A. Rowlands
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0347.12
label: accession number
content: 1983.0347
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0347.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: whistle, referee
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tape (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 1 in x 2 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 2.54 cm x 6.35 cm