A first-of-its-kind football helmet will allow coaches at Gallaudet University, the school for deaf and hard of hearing students in Washington, D.C., to transmit plays to their quarterback via an ...

Quarterback <b>Brandon Washington<b/> #5 of the Gallaudet University Football team attends the AT&T 5G Connected Helmet Unveil event at Gallaudet University on October 07, 2023 in Washington, DC.

A first-of-its-kind football helmet will allow coaches at Gallaudet University, a school for deaf and hard of hearing students, to transmit plays to their quarterback via an augmented reality screen.

It wasn’t always this way: From American football’s bareheaded 19 th-century beginnings in the Ivy League to the leather-helmet era that spanned the first half of the 20 th century, decoration ...