Reports of new helmet designs for any team covered at this web site are greatly appreciated! Please note that to add an image for any new helmet to this web site I will need two things:

1. At least one photograph (preferably of the left side of the helmet), to show what the helmet looks like (please do not send artwork in place of photographs);

2. A copy of the logo for the decal (if different decals are worn on the left and right sides of the helmet, I need the logo for the left side of the helmet.

Once I have both of these things, I can usually add the new helmet to the web site within a day or two. Even if you are unable to provide these two things, reports of new designs are still appreciated greatly, particularly for the smaller colleges and junior colleges.

Please keep in mind that this web site is intended to be a "living history" of football helmet designs - I am interested in depicting even relatively minor changes, such as changes to the stripe sequence or changes of the facemask color, so please notify me even of small changes such as these, including any made later in the season, so that they can be documented. Not all colleges are contributing information, so if you notice an opposing team using a different helmet design than the one shown for them at this web site, I would greatly appreciate you letting me know about it.

Information about historical helmets (ones used since 1960) is also greatly appreciated!

As I had expected a number of college teams used special helmet decals on September 10, presumably in each case in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. So far I have received reports that the following teams used such special decals: Arkansas, Rice, Idaho, Wyoming, Northwestern, Tulsa, Washington, Western Kentucky, and Samford (all but WKU won their games). Most of these teams have simply replaced the normal colors within their helmet logo with an "American flag" background. I very much want to add ALL of these helmets to the web site! Please watch for additional such helmets and of course copies of those helmet logos will be greatly appreciated.

To facilitate the reporting of usages of alternate helmet designs, I have assigned designations in the form of letters immediately below the helmet images for known "multi-helmet" teams that have not indicated a specific scheme for their usage. For example, Oregon's green helmet with yellow "O" logo is designated 'A', Oregon's white helmet with green "O" is designated 'B', etc. This will allow you to report that "Oregon used helmet A yesterday vs Arizona" instead of "Oregon used green helmets with yellow "O" yesterday vs Arizona", and at the end of the year the sequence of helmets used by Oregon can be summarized as (for example) "AAC BCA DBA ECA D" (one letter for each game in sequence). So far this has only been done for teams that have announced that they will use multiple helmet designs, but of course others may become evident as the season progresses (Virginia Tech used five different design in 2010 but has not yet indicated that any more than one will be used in 2011, to the best of my knowledge). The proliferation of alternate helmet designs is becoming almost unmanageable to keep up with, so please bear with me as I try to document all of their usages - I may not be able to update every team every week.

Thanks to everyone for contributing information to the web site!