Sam Weller Widdowson is credited with inventing shin pads back in 1874. He was a cricketer ... and started wearing them to protect him during football matches, and that his idea soon caught ...

Then, on Tuesday, the players were back in shorts, but wearing shoulder pads. And while the contact was very limited ... and we'll do that again this Saturday." One area of football that got a lot of ...

You have to practice football in the way of which it's played on game days, so that's what we'll do tomorrow." The first workout in pads Tuesday ... of freshman running back Jerrick Gibson and ...