The “pigskin” is not made of pig skin but is, in fact, made from cowhide. Of course, popular speculation has it that the leather exterior of the football was once made from the tanned skin of ...

Rediske, who analyzed Wolverine's patented process for treating pigskin leather hides with Scotchgard as part of his initial memo alerting DEQ to the company's usage, said the leather was dipped ...

These days, footballs are typically made from cowhide or vulcanized rubber, ... the animal bladders were sometimes encased with leather of some type, though pig skin wasn’t commonly used.

All of them will have been produced by Wilson Sporting Goods at its plant in Ada, Ohio, using leather from the Horween Leather Co. in Chicago, just like every other Super Bowl dating back to the ...

The obituary of 87-year-old Herman Roser ran in The Hartford Courant on March 6, 1947. A sentence in the story stood out and begged for a little further investigation in the archives: “Born in ...

The obituary of 87-year-old Herman Roser ran in The Hartford Courant on March 6, 1947. A sentence in the story stood out and begged for a little further investigation in the archives: “Born in ...