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#30 white is about to blow someone up. PF

Are those leather boots with hobnails?

Officials used to leap off the ground when signaling TD. Also, the wing would signal with a fist (much like punching back a backward pass) toward the EZ that the runner had crossed the GL, then the R would give the TD signal.

Prior to the stripes, at least in Texas, they wore white long sleeved shirts. They threw red flags. We have a picture of my dad in this uniform around 1960.

From the look of it, either his teammate or the official.

And they would "sell" that call with a repeated and/or exaggerated "punch" if it wasn't obvious. I've seen film of such a case (ball crossing plane, runner landing in the field of play) where you could see both wing officials facing infield and swinging their fist from the field-of-play side arm over their head toward the end zone and back, at least twice, like they were mimicking the action of the ball.

Last time I saw this signal was on TV in the Hula Bowl in the 1970s, and the official used an open hand; looked like a rugby ref giving a try.

There's a remnant of this practice in an umpire's fist-with-thumb-up signal.