1910 Facts

Before 1910, football teams were penalized 15 yards for an incomplete forward pass—a rule so harsh it nearly killed the forward pass before it could revolutionize the game.

In 1910, as Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet, people bought "Anti-Comet Pills", special "comet umbrellas", and gas masks, because there was public hysteria that all life on Earth would be destroyed by gas - called cyanogen - that was detected in the tail.