Great Midwest Athletic Conference

ALDERSON-BROADDUS	FINDLAY	HILLSDALE
"Battlers"	"Oilers"	"Chargers"
Philippi, WV	Findlay, OH	Hillsdale, MI

KENTUCKY WESLEYAN	LAKE ERIE	MALONE
"Panthers"	"Storm"	"Pioneers"
Owensboro, KY	Painesville, OH	Canton, OH

OHIO DOMINICAN	WALSH
"Panthers"	"Cavaliers"
Columbus, OH	North Canton, OH

Comments

This conference has have five new members in 2017: Findlay, Walsh, Ohio Dominican, Hillsdale, and Lake Erie, all of which were in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 2016.

Walsh has a new helmet design in 2017 (shown above).

Historical Helmets

ALDERSON-BROADDUS

2013 -

2013 was the first year of play for this team.

FINDLAY

2003 - 2006	? - 2002; 2007 - 2012	2013 -

During Findlay's second game of the 2015 season (September 12 at Tarleton State) the team used a modified helmet design - the logo appears to have a 'U.S. flag' pattern, and the stripe sequence may be different. I would appreciate a clearer photo of this design than the one below, which is the most useful one I have yet found.

HILLSDALE

? - early 2000s	early 2000s -	2017 -
		*see note 1 below

*1 This design has the college coat of arms on its left side only; the right side has uniform numerals (as shown below).

KENTUCKY WESLEYAN

1996 - 1998	1999 - 2002	2003 - 2007

2008	2009 - 2011	2012

2013	2014	2015 (some games)

2015	2016 -

This team first played in 1983, so a complete helmet design history could probably be ascertained quite easily by someone at the college with access to reference materials (yearbooks, game programs, etc.). I have not received any information about pre-1996 helmet designs for KWC.

LAKE ERIE

2008 - 2010	2011 - 2015	2016 -
		*see note 1 below

2008 was the first year of varsity play for this team (a club-level team played in 2007 and earlier years).

*1 The 2016 helmet design featured a logo commemorating the tenth year of the Lake Erie football team and the college's 160th anniversary. The logo included a large "X" (for the number ten), flanked by "2007" and "2016"; beneath the X is "1856". This logo was worn on the left side only of each helmet; the right side featured the same "STORM" logo which was worn on both sides in 2015.

MALONE

? - 2001	2002	2003 - 2005

2006 - 2007	2008	2009 - 2012

2013 - 2014	2015	2016 -
	*see note 1 below

*1 This design uses the "MU" logo on its left side only; the right side features small silver or reflective uniform numerals (as represented below).

OHIO DOMINICAN

2004 - 2009	2010 - 2011	2012 -

This team played its first season in 2004.

WALSH

? - 2005	2006 - 2012	2013 - 2016
*see note 1 below

2017 -

*1 This design is reported to have been in use at least throughout the period 2000 - 2004.