New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference


COAST GUARD
ACADEMY
MAINE MARITIME
ACADEMY
MARITIME COLLEGE
"Bears" "Mariners" "Privateers"
New London, CT Castine, ME Throggs Neck, NY
MERCHANT MARINE
ACADEMY
M.I.T. NORWICH
"Mariners" "Engineers" "Cadets"
Kings Point, NY Cambridge, MA Norwich, VT
SALVE REGINA SPRINGFIELD W.P.I.
"Seahawks" "Pride" "Engineers"
Newport, RI Springfield, MA Worcester, MA

Maritime College and Salve Regina are new members of this conference in 2023.

Maine Maritime Academy announced on August 14, 2020 the "suspension" of its intercollegiate football team; the suspension continued through 2021 and 2022. On January 9, 2023 the Academy announced that it would restore the team at a "sub-varsity" level in 2023 and 2024, with a return to varsity play in 2025 at which time the team will be a member of the Commonwealth Coast Conference.


Historical Helmets

UNITED STATES COAST GUARD ACADEMY

1972 - 1980 1981 - 1982 1983 - 1985?
'A'
1986 - 1992 1993 - 2011 2012 - 2019; 2021 - 2022
'B' 'C' 'D'
2013 - 2019 2013 - 2014 2015
*see note 1 below
'E' 'F' 'G'
2017 - 2019; 2022 2020 2021 - 2022
*see note 2 below
'H' 'I' 'J'
2021 - 2022 2022 2023 -
*see note 3 below
'K' 'L'
2023 - 2023 -

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

In 1965 Coast Guard used white helmets with a large interlocking "CG" logo in unknown colors (photograph below).

*1 The "225" logo (recognizing the US Coast Guard's 225th anniversary) is worn on the left side only of this design; on the right side is a "bear" logo (like that worn on both sides of design 'C'.

*2 This design has the "Bears" logo on its left side only; on the right side is a "bear claw" logo (as represented below).

*3 This design has the "Bears" logo on its left side only; on the right side is a "bear claw" logo (as represented below).


MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY

c.early 2000s c.2003 2005? - 2013
2014 - 2018 2019
*see note 1 below *see note 2 below

The dates of use for these helmets are quite uncertain; I would appreciate hearing from anyone who can clarify the years of use for each design. The second and third shown above were used during at least parts of the 2003 and 2005 seasons, respectively.

*1 This design has uniform numerals on its left side only; on the right side is a large "anchor" logo (as depicted below).

*2 This design has uniform numerals on its left side only; on the right side is a large "anchor" logo (as depicted below).


STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK MARITIME COLLEGE

? - 1989 2012 2006 - 2011; 2013 - 2014
2015 - 2017 2018 -

The first helmet design shown above was the last one used by New York Maritime before the school's football team was terminated in 1989. Football was restored in 2006.


UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY

1960 - 1961 1962 1963
1964 - 1968 1969 1971
1970; 1972 - 1975 1976 1977 - 1980
1981 - 2013 November 12, 2022;
November 11, 2023;
November 18, 2023
2014 -
*see note 1 below *see note 1 below *see note 1 below

*1 The Merchant Marine Academy began using an American flag logo on the left side of the team's football helmets in 1981 and has used it ever since (the logo was modified slightly in 2014), but a series of different logos have been worn on the right side during the same time period; below are representations of these. Since 2006 the flag logo has been worn on both sides during most games; in 2005, the right side was apparently "blank", judging from the small number of available photographs.

1981 - 1983 1984 - 1988;
November 17, 2018
1989 - 2002
2002 - 2004 November 12, 2022;
November 11, 2023;
November 18, 2023

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

? - 2005 2006 - 2010 2011 - 2012
2013 - 2015 2016 2017 -

NORWICH UNIVERSITY

? - 2000? 2001? - 2006 2007 -

SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY

1993 - 1996? 1997? - 1998? 1999? - 2010
2011 - 2012 2013 2014 - 2015
2016 - 2017 2018; September 1, 2023 2019
*see note 1 below
2021 -

The above are all of the "known" helmet designs used by SRU, which played its first season of football in 1993. The dates of use are uncertain for the period 1996 - 1999, but the first design shown above was apparently used through at least 1996, and the third design by at least 1999. A club or JV-level team played in 1992 and used the first design shown above.

*1 The 2014-2015 helmet design used the "SR" logo only on the left side; gray uniform numerals were worn on the right side (as represented below).


SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE

1961 - 1962? 1960; 1963 - 1964 1965 - 1975
1976 1977 - ? ? - 1994
1995 - 1997 1998 - 1999 2000 - 2006
2007 2008 - 2013 2014
2015 -

WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

? - 1982 1983 - 1986? 1987? - 1992
1993 - 1998? 1999? - 2003 2004 - 2005
2006 - 2011 2012 only? 2013? - 2016
2017 - 2022 2023 -