Find a photo, please...
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 7:12 am
Hello, gentlemen.
I'm the graphic artist and researcher for the GUD.
As you know, part of our site is dedicated to displaying the uniform matchups for all games back to 1932.
We have photographic evidence - largely newspaper photos - for every game back through and including 1956.
One, in particular, vexes me to no end.
On October 7, 1950, the Steelers hosted the Browns in Forbes Field for the first ever meeting between the teams.
Due to the use of the white football for night games, we are assuming the Steelers wore their typical black jerseys with yellow helmets and pants.
The Browns likely were forced to wear orange helmets, brown jerseys, and the ever-mysterious 'silver' pants.
The reason we have not been able to find a photo for the game is that the Pittsburgh papers were all on strike and the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Post did not publish photos with articles about the game on either October 8 or 9.
We have been trying to locate someone associated with the Browns organization in some capacity as Team Historian or Public Relations, etc, that would be able to either help us outright or at least steer us in the right direction.
Help us, PFRA, you're our only hope...
I'm the graphic artist and researcher for the GUD.
As you know, part of our site is dedicated to displaying the uniform matchups for all games back to 1932.
We have photographic evidence - largely newspaper photos - for every game back through and including 1956.
One, in particular, vexes me to no end.
On October 7, 1950, the Steelers hosted the Browns in Forbes Field for the first ever meeting between the teams.
Due to the use of the white football for night games, we are assuming the Steelers wore their typical black jerseys with yellow helmets and pants.
The Browns likely were forced to wear orange helmets, brown jerseys, and the ever-mysterious 'silver' pants.
The reason we have not been able to find a photo for the game is that the Pittsburgh papers were all on strike and the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Post did not publish photos with articles about the game on either October 8 or 9.
We have been trying to locate someone associated with the Browns organization in some capacity as Team Historian or Public Relations, etc, that would be able to either help us outright or at least steer us in the right direction.
Help us, PFRA, you're our only hope...