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.](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2012/11/SHORPY_29576u1.jpg "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.")
