Judge — November 9, 1918 — page 13: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "If the Huns Should Take Up Football" This satirical cartoon by R.B. Feuele imagines a hypothetical scenario where German soldiers ("Huns"—a dehumanizing WWI-era term for Germans) play American football. The drawing shows caricatured German military figures in football gear engaged in a chaotic, violent game. The satire works on multiple levels: it mocks both German militarism and American football's brutality by conflating them. The joke suggests that Germans' aggressive military nature would translate naturally to football's violent contact sport. The cartoon likely dates from the World War I period, when anti-German sentiment was high in America. It uses grotesque caricatures and the absurdist premise to ridicule the enemy while also gently critiquing American football itself as barbaric.