"Pa" Corbin, center of the 1887 Yale team, were flashy side whiskers, and after a few plays of the game with Harvard at the Polo Grounds, he turned to the referee and said, "Mr, referee ...

But before the era of big beards came another curious trend: side-whiskers. Historian Dr Alun Withey investigates. Beard fashions have always come and gone – the most famous, perhaps ...