From inventing the huddle to trying a new helmet, Gallaudet is home to a proud football tradition

Chuck Goldstein has not used a whistle to coach football in more than a decade. Since arriving at Gallaudet University as an assistant in 2009, Goldstein has embraced coaching a team of Deaf and hard-of-hearing players and the adjustments that go with it. Gallaudet has been playing football since 1883, when it was known as the National Deaf-Mute College, and invented the huddle just over a decade later.