Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

ALBANY STATE BENEDICT CLARK ATLANTA
"Golden Rams" "Tigers" "Panthers"
Albany, GA Columbia, SC Atlanta, GA
FORT VALLEY STATE KENTUCKY STATE LANE
"Wildcats" "Thorobreds" "Dragons"
Fort Valley, GA Frankfort, KY Jackson, TN
MILES MOREHOUSE STILLMAN
"Golden Bears" "Maroon Tigers" "Tigers"
Fairfield, AL Atlanta, GA Tuscaloosa, AL
TUSKEGEE
"Golden Tigers"
Tuskegee, AL

Comments

Kentucky State and Lane are using new helmet designs for the 2011 season (shown above).

For the 2011 season Stillman has returned to an earlier helmet design, the one last used by the team in 2008. The 2011 helmet logo has the team name "Tigers" in front of a large "S" (photo below); I will need a copy of this logo in order to add this helmet to the web site.

Miles switched to purple helmets for the 2004 season. I STILL need a copy of the helmet logo (a yellow "MC" with white outline) in order to add this one to the web site. Below is a photo of this one, which was apparently also still in use in 2005 and subsequent years, though the stripe sequence has changed more than once (no stripes were used during at least some games in 2005, and the 2009 helmet also appears to lack stripes):

Tuskegee was using a new helmet logo in 2004, shown in the photograph below. The logo is the team name "GOLDEN TIGERS" in yellow letters with white and red outlines. I could add this helmet to the web site if I could get a scanned copy of the helmet decal itself, or of the artwork for it. I believe that this design was still in use during the years 2005 through 2010, also, and apparently in 2011 as well.

Historical Helmets

ALBANY STATE

August 27, 2005 ? - present

BENEDICT

? - 2000? 2001? - 2003 2004 - 2006
2007 (early season) 2009 (first game) 2007 -
*see note 1 below

*1 This design was used for an unknown number of games (more than one) in 2007 before stripes were added to the helmet.

CLARK ATLANTA

? - 2004 2005 - 2009 2010 -

During at least several games in 2003, Clark Atlanta was using a different helmet logo on the right sides of their football helmets - a white circle containing the number 64, as shown in the photograph below. This was done in recognition of former Clark Atlanta football player and coach Curtis Crockett, who had died in February 2003; Crockett had worn number 64 during his playing days at Clark Atlanta.

FORT VALLEY STATE

? - 2002;
some games in 2007 & 2008		 2003 2003 - ?
2007? -

Fort Valley State used at least two different helmet designs in 2003, one with the "Wildcats" logo on the sides, and one without it. The logo was absent during the team's first game of the season against Morehouse, but was present at least during later games against Tuskegee and Albany State.

FVSU used plain blue helmets (without stripes or decals) during at least the 2007 game against Tuskegee and the 2008 game against Valdosta State. This is one team for which there have probably been several other undocumented helmet changes during recent years.

KENTUCKY STATE

? - 1999? 2000? - 2002? 2001; 2003
2004 - ? ? - 2008? 2011 -

The dates listed here are the roughest of approximations. The first helmet shown above was in use during at least part of the 1999 season, and possibly in 2000 also. The second was in use during at least part of the 2000 season. The third helmet was in use during at least parts of the 2001 and 2003 seasons. I would greatly appreciate hearing from anyone who can identify the precise dates of use for each of these helmets.

LANE

? - 2004 2005 - 2010 2011 -

In 2005 Lane switched to white helmets with burgundy facemasks, burgundy-blue-burgundy stripes, and an arched "LANE" logo which was dark blue with a burgundy shadow (photo below); this design was apparently used throughout the period 2005 - 2010. I still need a copy of the helmet logo for this one in order to add it to the web site.

MILES

? - 2000

Miles College had switched from white helmets to yellow ones in 2001 with a new "MC" logo (shown in photograph below); I need a copy of this "MC" logo in order to add this helmet to the site. I believe that this helmet design was used through the 2003 season.

MOREHOUSE

c.late 1990s 2003 only? ? - 2002?; 2004 - 2006?
2007 -

Morehouse seems to use "plain" helmets fairly often; photographs from an early-season game against Fort Valley State in 2005 show the team wearing helmets without decals. I suspect that, in most years, the decals are eventually added to the helmets even when they are absent during early-season games.

STILLMAN

2004 (at least one game) 2009 - 2010 2001 - 2008 (most games);
2011 -

TUSKEGEE

? - 1999? 2000? - 2003