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

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CatchesDrops

Averages

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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.