Clear LuciteFootball Face Mask
date: label: date made
content: ca 1952 - 1976
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Clear, one bar football facemask. These were used when facemasks were first gaining popularity in the early 1950s. Made of plexiglass or lucite, they were eventually banned around 1957 due to their brittleness. During hard impacts the material would shatter getting into players eyes or causing cuts to their skin. Rawlings was one of many to produce the mask, model RL110.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: Football
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: E. Michael Swanton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.1114.11
label: accession number
content: 1977.1114
label: catalog number
content: 1977.1114.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Face Guard
label: Object Name
content: face mask, football
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: lucite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 2 in; 21.59 cm x 5.08 cm