Sunday, December 14, 2025

popular fallacy about football / aka pigskin camouflage

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Lawrence M. Guyer
, Football Camouflage, in Boys' Life (November 1929), p. 16—

"Now, gentlemen," he continued, "I have only a few more words in conclusion of this lecture. I wish to speak for a moment regarding the popular fallacy connected with camouflage. There is a widespread belief that camouflage means to conceal, to hide, to absolutely remove an object from the enemy's view. That, of course, is not at all true. Camouflage means rather to disguise the object in such a way that the enemy is misled. Deception is the end thus to be attained."