The J. Peterman Company is a vendor of women and men's clothing. The company has retail and mail order facilities in
Lexington, Kentucky.
Their current mail order catalog is listed as Early Fall
2013, Owner’s Manual No. 109.
The
catalog offers vintage (early Twentieth Century) football jerseys in paired
colors of navy-maize or green-gold.
The catalog also notes that in 1905, 18 football players
died from injuries and brutal play.
This death-toll captured the attention of then Whitehouse incumbent
Teddy Roosevelt, Congress, press and college administrators.
To get the flavor of football in 1905, Google “college football deaths 1905.”
Bexley Public Radio listeners: have you ever heard these football mortality statistics
before? Has college football changed
since 1905?
Send us your comments to wcrxlp@yahoo.com.
