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The word jockstrap has purportedly been in use at least since 1891, a likely contraction of "jockey strap", as the garment was first designed for bicycle-riding messengers and deliverymen, or 'bike jockeys'. The Bike Jockey Strap was the first jockstrap manufactured in America in 1874. [1] [2] Jockey meaning 'rider', primarily a race horse ...
The jockstrap is the one piece of equipment used in football that predates the sport itself. In 1874, Charles Bennett of the Chicago sporting goods company, Sharp & Smith, created the "bicycle jockey strap" for bicycle riders (or, bicycle jockeys as they were then known). Other athletes adopted the jockey strap in their sports.
This is a list of notable jockeys, both male and female, covering jockeys who have competed worldwide in all forms of horse racing A. Fred Archer ...
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The jockstrap was invented in 1874, by C. F. Bennett of a Chicago sporting goods company, Sharp & Smith, to provide comfort and support for bicycle jockeys riding the cobblestone streets of Boston, Massachusetts. [5] In 1897 Bennett's newly formed Bike Web Company patented and began mass-producing the Bike Jockey Strap. [10]
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