Helmets of Future College Teams


This page contains announced helmet designs for college teams that will begin varsity play in the year 2012 or later; the new teams for 2011 have been moved to their various conference pages. The seven new teams for 2011 were University of Texas at San Antonio (NCAA Division I - Football Championship Subdivision independent team), Presentation College (NCAA Division III Upper Midwest Athletic Conference), Stevenson University (NCAA Division III Middle Atlantic Conference), Ave Maria University and Robert Morris University (both NAIA independent teams), Concordia University (MI) (NAIA Mid-States Football Association), and Virginia University Lynchburg (an unaffiliated team in 2011).

If you are associated with one of these future teams and have information about what the team's helmet design will look like, I would certainly appreciate hearing from you, but PLEASE wait until a ***FINAL*** decision is made about what the helmets will look like! If there is any doubt, I would prefer that you wait until shortly before the team plays its first game!

One fact that has become clear to me after having worked on this web site for several years is that many colleges will put together for ceremonies associated with the arrival of varsity football some sort of helmet design that is never really intended to be a "prototype" design for the team; it would probably be better to call such a helmet a "prop" helmet. It is my impression that decisions about actual helmet designs are usually reserved for the head coach to make, and rarely will a head coach have been named as soon as a decision is made to institute a team. So, without additional information to indicate otherwise, I do not consider photographs from "football introduction festivities" showing "prop" helmets to be reliable information about actual helmet designs. There is little reason to send me photographs from these teams' web sites unless they are accompanied by a caption indicating that a helmet design which the team will actually be using is shown - besides, I've probably already seen them.

The following four-year colleges and universities have announced that they will be adding varsity football programs either in 2012 or subsequent years (first year of play in parentheses):

There certainly may be others as well which I have not heard about, so please let me know if you have any additions! (including colleges in Canada and junior or community colleges).


New Teams for 2012

ALDERSON-BROADDUS

This college's athletic teams are called the "Battlers" and the school colors are blue and gold. No information has been received regarding the team's future helmet design.


BLUEFIELD

According to information posted at the team's web site, this helmet design has already been chosen for future use by the Bluefield "Rams".


MISERICORDIA

Misericordia's team will be known as the "Cougars" and the school colors are blue and gold. No helmet design information has yet been received for this team.


MONROE COLLEGE

The Monroe team will be known as the "Mustangs" and the school colors are listed as blue and gold.


POINT UNIVERSITY

Point's athletic teams are now called the "Skyhawks" and the school colors are blue and gold. I have not yet received any definite information as to what the football team's helmets will look like, but photographs have appeared at the team's web site (as of April 2012) showing dark blue helmets with a lighter blue "wing" logo on the sides.


SIENA HEIGHTS

Siena Heights' football team will be called the "Saints" and the school colors are blue and gold. During the 2011 football season the JV team at Siena Heights used the helmet design shown above, and it has been reported to me that the varsity team which begins play in 2012 will also use this design.


WAYLAND BAPTIST

WBU's team will be known as the "Pioneers" and the school colors are blue and gold. A couple of different "prop" helmets have appeared in photographs at the future team's web site but I do not know if any of these have actually been chosen for use by the team.


New Team for 2013

MERCER

This design has been announced for future use by the Mercer "Bears".


Other colleges which may start football teams

Below are listed some other colleges which may be adding football as a varsity sport in the near future, or which at least appear to be considering doing so, and some others which have recently rejected the idea. For each of these, it is my impression that the addition of football is not yet a certainty. (There are probably many others besides those listed here; reports about additional schools, both in the United States and Canada, would be appreciated.)