*1 In 1969 Army used a version of the college football centennial "100" decal on their helmets; it was worn on the back side of the helmet, just above the bottom, and would not be visible from the perspective I use at this web site. The football shape was some dark color (perhaps black, but quite possibly blue or some other color), outlined in white, and with white numerals. I have seen one photograph where some renegade player had placed the decal on the side of his helmet, but the rear placement was clearly the standard position for it. The 1969 helmets were otherwise identical to this one.

*2 This design was used throughout the 1972 and 1973 seasons with the exceptions of games #3 and #4 in 1972; for those games (vs Lehigh and Penn State), the logo was absent and the helmets therefore resembled the one shown above labelled "1972; 1974 - 1977".

*3 Helmets with a digital camouflage pattern were worn December 6, 2008 (vs Navy), October 30, 2010 (vs Virginia Military Institute), November 2, 2013 (at Air Force), November 9, 2013 (vs Western Kentucky), October 11, 2014 (vs Rice), and October 18, 2014 (at Kent State). The patterns apparently varied from one helmet to the next, at least during the more recent seasons.

*4 Worn November 6, 2010 (vs Air Force) and September 6, 2014 (vs Buffalo).

*5 Army first used black faceguards for the 1977 game against Navy; gray ones had been used for all earlier games that season.

*6 I have received conflicting descriptions of the color of the stripe on this design - some people have reported that a white stripe was used, but it appears to be pale gray in the clearest photographs which I have seen.

*7 This design differs from 'D' in that the stripe has a camouflage pattern.

*8 Worn vs Navy at Philadephia, PA. Uniform numerals were worn on the left side only of each Army helmet during this game. On the right side of each helmet was one of seventeen different logos representing "the 17 branches [of the Army] cadets can enter after graduation"; below are representations of these designs.

Adjutant General Branch	Air Defense Artillery Branch	Armor Branch

Aviation Branch	Chemical Branch	Corps of Engineers Branch

Cyber Branch	Field Artillery Branch	Financial Management Branch

Infantry Branch	Medical Services Corps Branch	Military Intelligence Branch

Military Police Branch	Ordnance Branch	Quartermaster Corps Branch

Signal Corps Branch	Transportation Branch

*9 Worn vs Navy at Baltimore, MD. During this game seven different helmet "logos" were worn by Army; these were the insignia of various units of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division as constituted during the Second World War; below are representations of these designs. Many helmets had the logo on one side only; the left side of many helmets was "blank".

504th Parachute Infantry Regiment	505th Parachute Infantry Regiment	508th Parachute Infantry Regiment

307th Airborne Engineer Battalion	325th Glider Infantry Regiment	456th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion

Paragliders

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UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

1958 - 1962	1963	1964

1965	1966	1967
*see note 1 below

1968; 1970	1971 - 1972	1973 - 1975

1976 - 1977	1978 - 1982	1983 - 1989

1990 - 1993	1994	1995 - 1998

		'G'
1999 - 2001	2002	2003 - 2012; 2018 -

'A'	'B'	'C'
2013 - 2014	2013 - 2014	2014

'D'	'E'	'F'
2015 -	2015 -	2015 -

'H'	'I'	'J'
2018 -	2018 -	2018 -

'K'	'L'	'M'
2019 -	2019 -	2019 -

'N'	'O'	'P'
2022 -	2022 -	2022 -
	*see note 2 below

'Q'	'R'	'S'
2023 -	2023 -	2023 -
		*see note 2 below

'T'
2023 -

During recent years Connecticut has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

• 2023: N-E-N; Q-N-R; S-N-N; N-T-T
• 2022: N-N-I; I-N-O; O-O-N; P-Q-N; N (the last game being vs Marshall in the Myrtle Beach Bowl at Conway, SC)
• 2021: L-M-G; K-G-K; M-M-L; L-M-L
• 2020: [no schedule played]
• 2019: G-K-K; L-G-M; K-K-G; L-G-K
• 2018: G-H-I; G-G-I; G-I-I; J-I-G
• 2017: E (entire season)
• 2016: D-E-E; F-D-D; D-D-E; F-E-E
• 2015: D-D-D; E-E-D; D-D-F; E-F-E; D (the last game being the St Petersburg Bowl vs Marshall, at St Petersburg, FL)
• 2014: B-A-B; A-B-A; C-C-C; C-C-C
• 2013: A-B-A; B-B-A; A-B-B; A-A-A

In 1969 Connecticut used a logo consisting of the number "100" inside a football shape to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first college football game; I would appreciate any clear color photographs of UConn's version of this helmet.

*1 The 1965 Connecticut helmet design was a peculiar one - the left half of the shell was white and the right side blue, with the same logo on each side, but with the colors inverted (hence the right side looked like the '1964' design shown above).

*2 Both designs 'O' and 'S' recognize victims of different types of cancer; a number of different colors are used for the main portion of the helmet logo, each representing a different type of cancer. A graphic released by the university in 2022 (for design 'O') identified twelve different colors that could have been chosen by the players for use on their helmets, and noted that some helmets may have a mismatched pair of colors on either side. No such list was found for the 2023 design ('S') but a similar set of colors appears to have been used. Pink (representing breast cancer) appears to have been most abundant on 'S'.

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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

1963 - 1968	1970 - 1972	1973

1974 - 1984	1985	? - 1962; 1986

1987	1988	1989 - 1992
		*see note 1 below

1993 - 2002	2003 - 2004	2005 - September 1, 2011

		'B'
2011	October 20, 2012	2013; September 27, 2014
*see note 2 below

'C'	'D'	'A'
2013	2013	2012 - 2013

'E'	'F'	'G'
2014 - 2016	2015 - 2017	2017

'H'	'I'	'J'
2018	2018-	2019; 2021 -

'K'	'L'	'M'
2019	2019 -	2019 -

'N'	'O'
2021 -	2022 -

During recent years Massachusetts has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

• 2023: L-L-M; M-L-L; J-N-L; L-N-K
• 2022: N-N-O; O-N-N; N-J-L; L-J-L
• 2021: L-J-L; N-L-J; L-N-J; N-N-L
• 2020: L (entire season (four games))
• 2019: J-K-L; K-L-L; K-M-L; K-L-K
• 2018: H-H-B; H-H-B; I-H-B; H-H-H
• 2017: F-F-F; F-B-G; F-F-F; F-B-B
• 2016: F-B-F; B-F-F; F-F-B; F-F-F
• 2015: E-B-E; E-E-B; B-F-B; F-F-F
• 2014: E-E-E; E-B-E; B-E-E; E-E-E
• 2013: A-B-A; A-A-C; C-B-D; B-A-B

The above are to the best of my knowledge all of the different helmet designs used by Massachusetts during the period covered by this website (1960 to present).

*1 This design is identical to the one used in 1988 but for the addition of the word "AMHERST" in small letters below the "UM" logo (the letters are obviously not legible in the image size used here).

*2 First worn during the second game of the 2011 season (September 17 vs Rhode Island). This design has an asymmetrical stripe sequence - the white middle stripe is bordered by a blue stripe on the left, and by a red stripe on the right.

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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

1959 - 1962; September 10, 2011	1963	November 12, 2011
		*see note 1 below

October 6, 2012	October 5, 2013	September 13, 2014
*see note 2 below

November 21, 2015	November 12, 2016	November 18, 2017

November 17, 2018	1964 -

The shamrock helmet logo was introduced in 1959 by Notre Dame's head coach Joe Kuharich; it was used through the 1962 season and replaced with white uniform numbers the following year. New head coach Ara Parseghian brought back plain gold helmets in 1964 and the team used those during every game for 47 seasons, until the shamrock was brought back for use during the 2011 game at Michigan.

*1 Worn during the 2011 game vs Maryland played at Landover, MD. The helmet image here may imply that the design involved "camouflage" but this is not the case - the shell was covered with circular, gold "reflectors" (for lack of a better word) that tended to more or less color the helmet in two shades of gold (dark and light).

*2 Worn during the 2012 game vs Miami (FL) played at Chicago, IL. Only the left side was blue; the right side was gold with a texture similar to that of the November 12, 2011 helmet (as represented below). The gold pattern spilled over onto the left hemisphere of the helmet by perhaps 1.5" or thereabouts.

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