Shock damping face guard strap for football helmets

Shock damping anchor straps for a face guard mounted on a transverse horizontal axis to a brow portion of a protective helmet, the face guard having a mounting bar rotatably mounted to the helmet on said axis and extending rearward at opposite sides of the helmet, and the face guard having opposite side anchor bars depending from the mounting bar at the front edges of opposite side ear portions of the helmet, there being an ear hole through each side ear portion of the helmet, and each anchor strap including a flexible body with inner and outer loop portions continuing one into the other from one end provided with a hole therethrough and to a terminal end, the hole at said one end being engaged over a fastener means and the inner loop portion formed into an inner loop wrapped around the front edge of the ear portion and passing through the ear hole of the helmet and secured by a second hole therethrough engaged over the fastener means, and the outer loop portion formed into an outer loop wrapped over the anchor bar and the said terminal end secured by a third hole therethrough engaged over and held by said fastener means.