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Ryan Barland always gets some great historical stuff out before big games:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">the crowd outside memorial stadium in 1925 after the gophers - wisconsin game. <a href="https://t.co/exAOAZ87vn">pic.twitter.com/exAOAZ87vn</a></p>&mdash; Ryan K. Barland (@GopherHistorian) <a href="">November 25, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 


I like when Ryan brings this stuff out. Great stuff! I have not explored the MN History Center in great detail (only the main exhibits), but there must be some of this stuff that Ryan shares available right?
 







Oh man. Our fans are so much better nowadays. There’s like nobody wearing any Gopher apparel in those photos.
 



Ski U Master said:
Those bleachers look like an OSHA nightmare.
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No kidding. You would think it would be common sense to put - at the very minimum - a thin guard rail at the top?! You lean back just a bit too far and it's game over.
 


Looks like the stand vs. sit debate raged hotly back then as well.
 




No screaming before the snap of the ball either, even as recently as the 1970's.
 

I would be the clumsy guy that would turn around to high five the guy on the top row behind me only to knock him off the bleachers.
 


If anyone has an interest in reading some great material on early football in Minnesota, the 1907 Minneapolis Central High School Yearbook is available online. It is has well written sections on that era's football history by:

-future Univ. of North Dakota coach, Harry Loomis;
- Gopher, Future All-American, Jewish Sports HOFer Sig Harris; and
- Gopher, first African American to play in the BIG (then know as the BIG 9) and prominent attorney Bobby Marshall.

There is also a section discussing new rules that year including the forward pass and 4 downs.

Check it out here: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Yearbooks/id/88949
 



Maybe the packers copied them first haha especially that loser left tackle
 

Ski U Master said:
Those bleachers look like an OSHA nightmare.
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They'd just bury you before you start to smell.

They wear leather caps in football back then? I often wonder how many football players of the era that were injured had CTE brain injury with a shorten life span?
 




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