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NKY Helmet History Project

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Hopefully I can post this piece of nostalgia here and allow folks to contribute in the comments.  I'll keep updating and make the final version available to anyone who wants a copy. Pics, and the season(s) the helmet was worn would be awesome.  Same for those already shown.  If I can date them all, I will.  Thanks in advance, and enjoy!

 

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    Very cool @1959! I've always been kind of a geek about unis/helmets. Here's a graphic I helped put together for Cov Cath/Highlands week with the history of the football helmets during the span of thei

  • Awesome. I remember when you posted these, and it was a bit of inspiration. Just took me a while to get around to it. I’ll definitely add them. Thank you very much. 

  • Thank you, these are great!  Newport is bringing back the Cats decal on white helmet this season. 

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Very cool @1959! I've always been kind of a geek about unis/helmets. Here's a graphic I helped put together for Cov Cath/Highlands week with the history of the football helmets during the span of their rivalry series. It includes all of the helmets in Cov Cath's football program history, with the exception of their very first helmet, since Cov Cath didn't play Highlands their first year of varsity football (1967). That season they had all-white helmets with a royal blue stripe down the center.

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19 minutes ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Very cool @1959! I've always been kind of a geek about unis/helmets. Here's a graphic I helped put together for Cov Cath/Highlands week with the history of the football helmets during the span of their rivalry series. It includes all of the helmets in Cov Cath's football program history, with the exception of their very first helmet, since Cov Cath didn't play Highlands their first year of varsity football (1967). That season they had all-white helmets with a royal blue stripe down the center.

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Awesome. I remember when you posted these, and it was a bit of inspiration. Just took me a while to get around to it. I’ll definitely add them. Thank you very much. 

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Thanks to those who reached out.  I think we have the full slate of Blue Colonels, and more Holmes, Holy Cross, Lloyd, NCC, Newport and Scott.

 

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Someone with better skills than me can certainly find the NewCath helmets from 1990-2000

7 hours ago, Breds82 said:

Someone with better skills than me can certainly find the NewCath helmets from 1990-2000

I'm not positive of the exact timelines, but I know this was New Cath's helmet from at least the mid 1980s, and they were using it again as of the 2000 football season.

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7 hours ago, Breds82 said:

Someone with better skills than me can certainly find the NewCath helmets from 1990-2000

These shoulder pads say 1990s all the way. Any idea which years they used this design?

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Newport played with these helmets as early as 1976 (maybe earlier even) and then into the early-to-mid 80s.

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Holmes played in this one in 1977 & 1978...the bulldog logo isn't easy to make out in this one, but it's different from the current. That was a red helmet with a white bulldog head.

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Holmes played in this one in 1977 & 1978...the bulldog logo isn't easy to make out in this one, but it's different from the current. That was a red helmet with a white bulldog head.

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They played from at least 1974 up to 1976 with this plain red helmet with a white face mask.

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Lloyd played in these Steelers lookalikes from roundabout 1986 up until 1990 or 1991. Head coach Rudy Tassini was a die-hard Steelers fan. I don't think they had any logo on either side, initially, and then they added the L with the three diamonds in a circle on one side of the helmet, much like the Steelers logo.

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