🏈 The History of American Football and its Growth as a Game

 

[TerryP]

We've talked about the differences in the size of offensive linemen from Bryant's era to today. This caught my eye. He had to have been considered huge.

He'd be a "tweener," maybe a strong safety?

Pudge Heffelfinger started playing football at Yale college for Walter Camp from 1888 to 1892. He was 6ft 3inches and weighed 210 pounds. He then played for the Chicago Athletic Association, but at that point, it wasn’t considered sportsmanlike to pay footballers for playing.