American Southwest Conference

EAST TEXAS BAPTIST	HARDIN-SIMMONS	HOWARD PAYNE
"Tigers"	"Cowboys"	"Yellow Jackets"
Marshall, TX	Abilene, TX	Brownwood, TX

MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR
"Crusaders"
Belton, TX

Historical Helmets

EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY

2000? - 2004	2005 - 2006	2007 - 2010

		'A' (and 'A1')
2011 - 2013?	2014	2015 - 2017
	*see note 1 below	*see note 2 below

'B'	'C'	'D'
2016 - 2019	2017 -	2018 -

'E'	'F'	'G'
2021 -	2021 - 2022	2023 -

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

• 2023: D-D-D; E-D-D; D-D?-E; G
• 2022: C-C-C; E-F-D; D-D-D; E
• 2021: D-D-C; C-C-D; C-E-D; F
• 2020*: D-D-D; C-C
• 2019: D-D-C; C-C-B; D-D-D; D
• 2018: D-D-C; D-B-D; D-D-D; D
• 2017: A1-A1-C; B-C-A1; A1-A1-A1; A1
• 2016: A-A-B; A-B-A; A-A-B; A

The ETBU football team was restored in 2000 following a forty-nine year hiatus.

*1 In 2014 uniform numbers were worn only on the left side of each helmet; on the right side was a large "tiger head" logo (as shown below).

*2 Designs 'A' and 'A1' both have uniform numbers on the left side only; logos are present on the right sides (as shown below).

'A'	'A1'

HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY

? - 1963	1990? - 2002	2003 - ?

'A'	'B'	'C'
? - present	2018 -	2023 -

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

• 2023: A-A-A; B-C-A; B-C-A?; B-A (the last game being an NCAA Division III playoff game at Trinity (TX)
• 2022: A-A-A; B-A-A; B-A-A; B-A (the last game being an NCAA Division III playoff game at Trinity (TX)
• 2021: A-A-B; A-A-B; A-B-A; A
• 2020*: B-A-A; B-A
• 2019: A-B-A; B-B-A; B-A-A; A
• 2018: B-B-A; A-B-A; A-B-B; A-A

This team played its first season of football in 1990. The university also had a team during an earlier era ending in 1963; no color photographs have been located from this period but monochrome photos in the 1964 yearbook suggest that the 1963 team used yellow helmets with purple uniform numbers and with two purple stripes (assuming the school colors were the same at that time).

HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY

? - 1999?	2000 - ?	? - 2010

2011 - 2013	2014 - 2016	2017
		*see note 1 below

		'A'
2018 - October 26, 2019	November 2, 2019 - 2020*	2021 -

'B'	'C'
2021	2022 -

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

• 2023: C-A-A; A-A-C; A-C-C; C
• 2022: A-A-C; A-C-A; A-A-C; C-C
• 2021: A-A-A; A-B-B; A-B-B; A

*1 The "JACKETS" logo is worn on the left side only of this design; the right side features a large outline of the state of Texas with a "yellow jacket" (as depicted below).

UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR

1998 - 1999	2000 - 2012	2013 -

The UMHB football team first played in 1998 and the above are the only "known" helmet designs used by the team thus far.