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Uncovering History: How the Gallaudet University Football Team Invented the Football Huddle in the 1920s

Uncovering history: the Gallaudet University football team invented the huddle in the 1920s as a way to keep their signed plays secret. Learn more about the four players from the 1920 Gallaudet University football squad that made history.
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October 29, 1925. Washington, D.C. "Melvin Jones, 5, who pierced heart with scissors."
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According to legend, the Gallaudet football team invented the huddle as a means to prevent opposing teams from stealing their plays by reading their sign language. Below are four players from the 1920 Gallaudet University football squad … looking super psyched.

Washington, D.C., 1920. "Gripp, Mathew, [Nathan] Lahn, Troske -- Gallaudet U." Gridiron stars of the first college for the deaf, credited with inventing the football huddle in the 1920s as a way to keep its signed plays secret.
Washington, D.C., 1920. “Gripp, Mathew, [Nathan] Lahn, Troske — Gallaudet U.” Gridiron stars of the first college for the deaf, credited with inventing the football huddle in the 1920s as a way to keep its signed plays secret.
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