The founder of ski brand , born in 1914 in Philadelphia. An aircraft engineer by trade, learned to ski in Vermont in the forties on the then standard wooden equipment. He set out to make a better ski and, after much experimentation鈥攅arly models were prone to snapping鈥攄eveloped superior planks with metal layers sandwiching a wood core. Most modern skis are still made this way. After retiring, Head took up tennis and continued introducing new materials into athletics. He joined to develop the oversize graphite racquet that鈥檚 now common in the sport. He died in 1991.
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