The White Sox, in 1960, became the first team to put names on their jerseys. As baseball popularity grew, other teams began to do the same. At this point all teams except the Yankees, wear jerseys with their names on them.
1970
College football, as a whole, doesn't decide on when to do anything. The institutions themselves decide whether or not to place names on the back of jerseys, and to this day, some teams have names and some do not.
When the National Football League and the American Football League merged in 1970, all players began wearing their names on their uniform jerseys. Before the merger, only the AFL teams wore jerseys with names.
Player names were added to the back on Michigan jerseys in 1980.
1944
1964
The Green Bay Packers, following the league's mandate, put player's names on their jerseys beginning with the 1970 season.
because they where honoring the graduates of the year 62 by wearing their old uniforms. i think it was 62? if not a year in the 60's but they where wearing their uniforms so they didn't have names cuz it wasn't their actual jerseys.
"C" stands for Captain.....however, not all teams captains are wearing C's on their jerseys......this is new and some of the teams aren't up to speed and some teams choose not to use this system because they have different captains throughout the year. Tammy D.
2010-2011 season, yes. The Golden State Warriors, and the New York Knicks i believe.
Well, if the reason is the same as the jersey situation for hockey, I know that the teams would wear dark jerseys while they were away because they didn't always have laundry facilities available to them when they were on a road trip. Since dirt shows up less on dark jerseys, a dark jersey would "last" a lot longer than a light one would.