2023 Caverna Colonels

**Colonels_Wear_Blue** · June 20

Aug 11 vs. Western Hills (Scrimmage)
Aug 18 at Muhlenberg County
Aug 26 vs. Fairview
Sep 1 vs. Eminence
Sep 8 vs. Edmonson County
Sep 15 at Shawnee
Sep 22 vs. Hart County
Sep 29 at Fulton County (District)
Oct 6 - BYE
Oct 13 at Russellville (District)
Oct 21 vs. Ballard Memorial (District)
Oct 17 at Monroe County

**RedHawk** · June 20

I saw the twitter post, but in all seriousness, how are they able to use this replica of CCH’s Colonel? It’s literally the exact guy with small teeny tweaks and I know CCH’s is trademarked. How long has Caverna used this logo? I can’t imagine the Park Hills crew would be happy about this, rightfully so.

**Tkinslow** · June 20

9 minutes ago, RedHawk said:

I saw the twitter post, but in all seriousness, how are they able to use this replica of CCH’s Colonel? It’s literally the exact guy with small teeny tweaks and I know CCH’s is trademarked. How long has Caverna used this logo? I can’t imagine the Park Hills crew would be happy about this, rightfully so.

I’m 50 and they’ve used it as long as I can remember.

**theguru** · June 20

It is an excellent looking logo and I love the color.

**gridiron guy** · June 20

2 hours ago, Tkinslow said:

I’m 50 and they’ve used it as long as I can remember.

I can remember back to the mid-90´s and Caverna has always used that logo.

**Colonels_Wear_Blue** · June 22

On 6/20/2023 at 4:01 PM, Tkinslow said:

I’m 50 and they’ve used it as long as I can remember.

On 6/20/2023 at 6:38 PM, gridiron guy said:

I can remember back to the mid-90´s and Caverna has always used that logo.

So I got curious after these two comments and took a little bit of a deep dive into this. I think you guys are thinking of a similar, but definitely different Colonel logo for Caverna.

I went back through a whooooole bunch of Cavernal yearbooks HERE...they have nearly all of Caverna's yearbooks from 1923-2000, and none of those have the Colonel logo shown up in the original post of this thread. They appear to have used the same logo throughout all of the 1950s and 1960s, then in the 1970s they appeared to move away from most Colonel imagery, save for a Colonel bust on the side of the football helmets (the best close-up version I could find was on the back of the football team's rain gear in some pictures from the 1977 and 1979 yearbooks). The 1970s logo is somewhat similar to the logo they lifted from Covington Catholic in the 2010s.

In the early 1980s Caverna moved over to a different Colonel bust logo that they kept through at least 2000 (it was even on the yearbook cover in 2000), and then I don't have yearbooks after 2000 and had to go with Google image search.

In the mid 2000s, Caverna lifted the EKU Colonel head logo and started using that. The earliest Google image search hit I got on Caverna's usage was from 2007. The logo was trademarked in 2004 by EKU, but Caverna changed the color to purple, added a calligraphy 'C' on the Colonel's hat, and then wrote the word "Caverna" onto the brim of the hat. Very creative and COMPLETELY different from the EKU design, right? 😂

Then in the late 2010s, Caverna lifted the Covington Catholic Colonel logo and started using it. Covington Catholic trademarked their logo in 2015, and the earliest Google image search hit I could find for Caverna's usage was from 2017. They took the Cov Cath logo, changed the color to purple, and switched Cov Cath's 'C+' on the hat to a calligraphy 'C'. They also switched from a sideburn mustache to a big old handlebar mustache and they drew on a little chin beard.

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