Color of goal post 1936

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GordonDedman
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Color of goal post 1936

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I'm colorising a 1936 black and white Pittsburgh Americans photo and wonder if anyone can advise me on the color of the goal post in that era please?
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Re: Color of goal post 1936

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Yellow was not mandated until 1966 as part of the infamous "Baltimore extensions."

Be aware that the padding was not necessarily white. Although there are no stipulations I could find, I am sure there must have been something stating that it could not be a solid color of the home team.
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There was NO standard color of goalposts prior to 1966.

The default color was white. but some teams (The Browns in the 1964 NFL Title Game is a good example) would use team colors as stripes on their posts.
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I feel like most people would feel like it would be incredibly pointless to spend time decorating a goalpost. Then again a lot of people at the games would have been drinking.
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