Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only two weeks after an opposing tackle's well-aimed blow broke the jaw of Drake University Halfback Johnny Bright (TIME, Nov. 5), the nation's leading ground gainer was gaining ground again. Playing with, a grilled face guard on his helmet and 11 Ibs. under his normal weight (cause of the loss: a liquid diet), Bright was jolted again the second time he carried the ball, and the wires holding his teeth together were snapped. But he stayed in the game, ran for one touchdown, passed for two more, picked up 106 yards on the ground...
Karen Killilea is a freckle-nosed little girl of eleven who falls down more than most youngsters: she has cerebral palsy. Like many another young palsy patient, she has been wearing a football helmet to protect her head. But a helmet is hot and heavy. Karen's father, a Manhattan engineer, took a better idea to Cavanagh's, the Park Avenue hatters. Last week Karen was wearing a jaunty cap. Built with a core of laminated plastic, it gives just as much protection as the helmet, and everybody, including Karen, thinks it is a lot more becoming...
...just started home after her day's work at a San Gabriel, Calif, supermarket, saw a frightening apparition climb out of an automobile at the rear of the store. Its face was covered by a black mask, dark goggles and a gas respirator. It wore a black helmet decorated by three metal antennas and a skull & crossbones, was dressed in a black shirt, black pants, black boots and black gloves. It carried a shotgun, wore two bone-handled .38s on its hips and a bandoleer of shotgun shells...
...this time the police arrived just as the apparition was leaving the store, clutching $13,675 in a canvas bank bag. As it began leveling its shotgun, a patrolman fired one shot from the hip. The figure fell, shot through the temple. The cops pulled off the mask and helmet, and there lay Forrest Ray Colson-back in uniform. He died two hours later...
French didn't get there in time. He is shown in the fourth picture behind Insalaco as Springfield end Dave Ritter (82) prepares to knock safety man Red Wylie (only helmet visible) away from the carrier. In the last picture Insalaco is out in the clear...