Vintage leather football helmets often as protective as modern helmets in common, game-like hits

Friday, November 4, 2011 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

Old-fashioned "leatherhead" football helmets from the early 1900s are often as effective as – and sometimes better than – modern football helmets at protecting against injuries during routine, game-like collisions, according to Cleveland Clinic researchers.

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