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  • Ohio State Buckeyes football helmet worn by Archie Griffin

    Ohio State Buckeyes football helmet worn by Archie Griffin

    Manufactured by
    Riddell, American, founded 1929
    Worn by
    Archie Griffin, American, born 1954
    Signed by
    Archie Griffin, American, born 1954
    Subject of
    Ohio State University, American, founded 1870
    Medium
    plastic, metal, padding, synthetic fiber
    Dimensions
    10 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 13 in. (26.7 × 24.1 × 33 cm)
    Type
    helmets
    sports uniforms
    Place used
    Columbus, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
    Date
    1972-1975
    Description
    An Ohio State Buckeyes football helmet worn by Archie Griffin. The hard plastic helmet is gray with black, white, and red lines running vertically from the front to the back in the middle of the helmet. There are holes throughout the surface of the helmet. The inside of the helmet has thick black padding. Grey plastic-coated metal bars form a face mask. The face mask juts out severely from the front of the helmet. It has one vertical bar down the center and two curved horizontal bars with additional bars between the horizontal bars into three sections. There is a white leather chin strap, snapped onto both the left and right of the helmet The chin strap is attached with two buttons on each side. The chin strap is white with red type reading “RiddellR.” Additional illegible writing is on the bottom left of the strap. On the left center side of the helmet handwritten in black ink is “Archive Griffin / 74 / 75.” Centered on the back of the helmet is the number “45.” “Archie / [illegible]” is handwritten on the interior of the hat, by the left ear hole in a brown colored ink.
    Topic
    African American
    Athletes
    Football
    Credit Line
    Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
    Object number
    2014.30.2
    Restrictions & Rights
    No Known Copyright Restrictions
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    National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
    Classification
    Tools and Equipment-Sports and Recreational
    Exhibition
    Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
    On View
    NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 052
    Data Source
    National Museum of African American History and Culture
National Museum of African American History and Culture
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1400 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20560

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