receiver gloves
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Receiver Gloves. Hello, my name is Ian O’Shea. I am a ninth grader from Bellwood-antis. Problem. Which type of receiver glove catches the footballs more often than other leading brands?. “ I can’t imagine playing with any other glove. When I wear Cutters I’m at the top of my game.” - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Receiver Gloves Hello, my name is Ian O’Shea.I am a ninth grader from Bellwood-antis.
PROBLEM Which type of receiver glove catches the
footballs more often than other leading brands?
“ I can’t imagine playing with any other glove. When I wear Cutters I’m at the top of my game.”◦Kevin Walter
If Cutters weren’t the best I wouldn’t be wearing them.”◦Terrell Owens
www.cuttersgloves.com
RESEARCH uses a different type of material than
other receiver gloves. C-tack and unlike other receiver gloves
when they get wet they don’t lose their tackiness.
All you have to do is dry them off and it restores their tackiness.
FRICTION My experiment has a lot to do with
friction.
Friction:Depends on surfaces
Hypothesis
Cutters receiver gloves catch footballs more often than other leading receiver glove brands.
I tied a football onto a rope and tied the other end to a basketball hoop ( 3.6m)to create a pendulum.
someone drop the football from the same height each time and had a receiver try to catch it.
My experiment
Apparatus design Step 1.) Tie a rope through the laces of
a football. Step 2.) Design and build a pendulum
attached to the rope with the football on it hinged above a pivoting point.
How to place the receiver
Step 3.) Place the receiver directly under the pivoting point.
Step 4.) Have the receiver under the pivoting point put on the receiver gloves.
Catching the football Step 5.) Have a person on a ladder so
they can drop the football and it will swing consistently each time they drop for each trial.
Amount of Catches
I did a total of 125 catches for each glove for a total of 625 catches for five people.
some of the receivers got tired near the end of the experiment.
So the gloves that were used last might not do as good as other gloves.
I did my experiment again and had everyone where a different set of gloves each time.
Redo
Brand of receiver glove.
Experimental Variable
Experimental Groups
My control group
To make sure no outside influences were effecting my project I added a control group.
My control group was catching the football without gloves to see if gloves even help you.
Control Variables
1. Temperature during experiment.2. Height the football was dropped.3. Length of the rope.4. Size and inflation of football.5. Amount of sleep and what the subject
had for breakfast.6. Can’t eat two hours before the trial.7. Rotate the order of the glove because
of fatigue.
Glove type Catches Drops
Cutters 103 22NFL Equipment
88 37
Underarmour
92 33
Nike 89 36Control 56 69
Chart of catches to drops
Cutters NFL Underarmour Nike Control0
20
40
60
80
100
120
CatchesDrops
Averages
Cutters NFL Underarmour Nike Control02468
1012
Series1
Averages of catches.
Type of Glove
Conclusion
My data doesn’t support my hypothesis.
I reject my hypothesis that Cutters receiver gloves will catch footballs more often than other leading receiver glove brands.
improvement
If I were to do this again I would have picked a different time of the year to do it.
I would also use more test subjects to make my results more accurate.
Further research
I could also test all different types of gloves.
Such as baseball gloves and golfing gloves.
After doing this experiment I realize I can test many other things that involve improving athletic ability.
THE END Thank you for letting present my
experiment.
QUESTIONS I will now answer any questions that you
have for me.