Helmets of Discontinued College Teams

This page contains helmet designs used in the past by college teams whose schools do not presently sponsor varsity football. Many dozens of American colleges have had varsity football teams in the past and since dropped the sport altogether; below is a list that is believed to be complete (or nearly so) back to 1950, with a few earlier dropped programs also listed. The information in this list comes primarily from the 1998 NCAA Football Record Book (thanks very much to Rick M. for sending me this list), and I have attempted to add to it all the colleges that have dropped football since 1998. The calendar year in which football was dropped for the last time follows the school name in parentheses, and is not necessarily the same as the last year in which football was played. Some of these colleges have since changed names, merged with other colleges, or closed altogether, so you probably will not recognize all these names. I would greatly appreciate information about football helmets used by varsity teams at any of these schools during the period 1960 to present. A similar list for Canadian colleges that once sponsored football appears following this list.

Partial list of discontinued American college teams

Partial list of discontinued Canadian college teams

Thanks to Bob W. of Ottawa for compiling this list and the accompanying notes, which I have reprinted here virtually unaltered; the year listed for each school is the last in which football was played at the college. I apologize for the absence of any accent marks and so forth which should appear on the French names; I actually do not know how to display these, and I cannot read French. I would certainly be interested in information about historical helmet designs (used since 1960) for these teams, though I'm beginning to doubt that I'm ever going to receive any such information! I've had this list up for several years (as of 2008) without receiving even one photo or helmet description for any of these teams.

Discontinued Major College Teams

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

c.early 1960s c.1963 c.1969
c.late 1980s? c.1993 c.1990s?
c.1990s? ? - 1997 1997
*see note 1 below

Boston U. apparently used many different helmet designs through the years. I believe there were several different ones featuring white "BU" logos worn on red helmet shells, but I have received little specific information about these, and the dates of use are particularly uncertain. The Terriers were in the Atlantic 10 Conference when they played their last season in 1997.

There is a campaign underway to reinstate football at BU; you can find more information at the web site of "Boston Terriers United for Football".

*1 As a protest against the university's decision to disband the football program, the team chose to drop the numerals from the helmets for its last two games in 1997.

CAL STATE-FULLERTON

1970 1971 1972 - 1974
1975 - 1976 1977 1978 - 1979
1980 - 1984 1985 - 1987 1988 - 1991
1992

The Cal State-Fullerton football team existed from 1970 through 1992; it was a member of the Big West Conference during its last few years of existence.

Below are the best photographs of the "missing" helmets that I have yet received - I do not yet have any color photographs of these (except 1978-1979) but I think the helmet shells were almost certainly dark blue in each case. It appears to me that the oval-shape on the 1971 helmet contained an "F" but I have received a conflicting description which stated that it contained the text "Cal State Fullerton".

(No information yet for 1972 - 1974, and 1977).

CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE

c.1992 ? - 2001

Cal State Northridge spent the 2001 season (the team's last) as an NCAA Division I-AA independent, having previously been a member of the Big Sky Conference for several years. The black helmet shown above is the design used by CSUN during roughly the last four years of the team's existence; I believe that the helmet design used immediately prior to this one featured a plain red shell (no logos) with a black facemask (confirmation of this would be appreciated). I have received conflicting reports indicating that, during earlier seasons, the team used red helmets with black facemasks, a black stripe, and either: a black "N" logo, similar to the one used by Nebraska (according to one person), OR the team name "Matadors" (according to another person). No photographs of either of these have been received. The first helmet design shown above was in use during at least the 1992 game against Cal State-Fullerton.

EAST TENNESSEE STATE

c.1990s ? - 2000 2001
2002 - 2003

The football team at East Tennessee State was discontinued following the 2003 season; the team had long participated as a member of the Southern Conference. Here is a link to the web site of a group working to bring football back to ETSU.

I have received little information about the team's earlier helmets. I believe that gold helmets have been used most years (including "plain" gold without logos during several years), but blue helmets were apparently used for at least a short time during the 1970s or 1980s; these featured a script "Bucs" logo during at least some years.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

GWU (Washington, DC) fielded a major college team through the 1966 season; the last GWU team played a schedule that featured four current NCAA Division I-A teams and six current I-AA schools. The helmet shown above is one used by the team during at least the 1960 season. The 1966 helmet has been described as being plain white also, but with a blue/"yellowish-gold"/blue stripe sequence. Color photos would be appreciated.

HOFSTRA

? - 1982 ? - 1991 1992? - 2004
2005 - 2007 2008 2009 -

Hofstra announced the discontinuation of its intercollegiate football team on December 3, 2009, citing a lack of interest in the team on behalf of the school's students and alumni, and a desire to re-allocate funding towards other pursuits. Hofstra's football team first played in 1937, and had moved from NCAA Division III to Division I-AA in 1991. The 2009 team finished with a 5-6 record.

I have partial information for some of Hofstra's other earlier helmet designs, and I could add some of these to the site if I could get some color photographs to clarify some of the following uncertainties about the colors:

During the very early 1960s, the team was using dark-colored helmet shells (probably blue) with light-colored players' uniform numerals on the sides. By 1963, the numerals were reduced in size and moved to the front of the helmets; an "H" replaced the numerals on the sides of the helmets. I would appreciate some color photographs from these years.

By at least some time in 1964, the "H" was replaced with a logo that I cannot identify from the few photographs that I have seen showing it. A single light-colored stripe was also added to the helmet design in 1964.

Photographs from 1965 show Hofstra still using dark-colored helmets shells, but with another new logo - a light-colored "H" inside a dark-colored oval shape, which is in turn surrounded by a light-colored outline. The 1966 design was similar, but the colors within the logo were apparently reversed (the "H" was dark, and the oval shape apparently white).

In 1967 and 1968, Hofstra once again used light-colored players' uniform numerals on the sides of the helmet shells, which were still some dark color. There were several stripes of unknown colors on the helmets during these years.

A new logo was adopted in 1969 - an interlocking "HU" that appears to have probably been yellow or gold in color. A photograph from 1970 shows the team apparently reverting back to the design used in 1966; in 1971, this design was apparently modified by the dropping of the light-colored stripe.

I do not have any information for Hofstra from the year 1972, but in 1973 and 1974, the team was using the unusual helmet logo shown in the photograph here - a lower-case "h" above a "u", both inside a vertical oval-shape of some unknown color.

In 1975, plain blue helmets may have been used, and in 1976 the team once again used the 1966 helmet design, an "H" inside a light-colored oval. I believe that the oval -shape was yellow or gold in color in 1976, but had probably been white during the earlier years when it was in use.

LONG BEACH STATE

c.1980 c.1981 - c.1985 c.late 1980s
*see note 1 below

LBSU is one of several California schools which dropped intercollegiate football during the 1990s. The 49ers were in the Big West Conference in 1991, which was their last season of football. The team competed at the Division I level from 1969 through 1991.

The official school colors were "brown and gold" for many years, until a switch was made to "black and gold". The entry for Long Beach State University at the Wikipedia web site indicates that this change was made in the spring of 1990 as a result of a vote by the student body. I have received conflicting information about the last helmet design used by the team. I believe that the correct description of this helmet (as provided more or less consistently by three different people) is as follows: black shell, gold facemask, white/gold/white stripes, and a logo consisting of either a white oval shape (according to one person) or a gold oval shape (according to another), containing the interlocking letters "LB", which are black with gold outlines. However, one visitor to this web site reported that "The helmet that LB St used against Miami in '91 was brown-shelled, not black. I'm very certain of that". I have not received any photographs to clarify which report is accurate.

If the 1991 helmets were black, what color were the 1990 helmets? If the school colors were changed in spring 1990, then presumably black helmets may have been used in fall 1990, also, though black helmets have only been mentioned to me in connection with the single-season tenure of heach coach George Allen in 1991, the team's last season.

I have not received much information for this team's earlier helmets. Another helmet design resembled the first one shown above, but featured a different logo, the word "BEACH" in brown letters. This one was used from 1981(?) through the mid-1980s. I would appreciate a copy of the "BEACH" logo.

Some very poor-quality photographs recovered from the university's web site suggest that the team may have been using gold helmets (as opposed to yellow ones, like the first one shown above) during the 1960s. No logos are visible in the photographs that I have seen.

*1 A mid-1970s helmet was very similar to this one, but featured the addition of a set of stripes colored brown/white/brown. The facemask color of this version is unknown.

MARQUETTE

1958 - 1960

The last varsity Marquette (Milwaukee, WI) football team played in 1960 and used the helmet design shown above.

NORTHEASTERN

c.1980s c.mid 1990s ? - 1999
2000 - 2003 2004 - 2009

On November 20, 2009, the decision was made to end the football team at Northeastern, which had participated for many years as a member of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Colonial Athletic Association. The 2009 team had finished with a 3-8 record.

I do not have any information about earlier helmet designs used by Northeastern, but I believe that the team may have used red helmets at some point, and that there are probably many other historical designs used during the period covered by this web site (designs used since 1960).

PACIFIC

c.1960s c.1973 c.mid 1980s
*see note 1 below
? - 1990 1991 ? - 1995

The University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA) was a member of the Big West Conference when the school dropped its football program following the 1995 season; it is the last Division I-A school to do so.

*1 This design was used at least through the period 1984 to 1987.

TAMPA

c.1971 - 1974

The University of Tampa (Tampa, FL) had an intercollegiate football team from 1933 through 1974; the team was discontinued despite enjoying considerable success during its last several seasons. The helmet design shown above was apparently used by the team for its last several years, but I have been told that the team made almost yearly changes through the 1960s. Information about any of these would be greatly appreciated. One earlier helmet has been described as having a maroon shell with white numerals on the sides.

TEXAS-ARLINGTON

c.1981 c.1982 c.1985

The Texas-Arlington Mavericks last played football in 1985 as a member of the Southland Conference. During at least part of the 1970s, UTA used white helmets with the logo shown below; it has been reported to me that the color of the logo was light blue.

This was a sufficiently prominent team that I would expect that a considerable amount of historical helmet information could be unearthed quite easily by someone at the university's campus.

WICHITA STATE

c.1960s c.1970 - ? c.early 1970s - 1980
*see note 1 below
1981? - 1983 1984 - 1986

Wichita State last played football in 1986 as a Division I-A independent team; earlier the team was a member of the old Missouri Valley Conference (which still exists for other sports).

Some other helmet designs were used by the team during the period 1960 - 1980. One helmet featured the letters "WSU" in black, arranged diagonally; this logo was worn on either gold, white, or yellow helmet shells (perhaps on more than one of these colors) through the 1970s and in 1980. A design from the late 1960s featured a white "W" inside a black circle; I believe that this logo was worn on yellow helmet shells. Photographs or other information about these or other helmet designs would be appreciated.

*1 This design was in use through at least the 1971 season.

Discontinued Smaller College Teams

ALLEN

2003? - 2005

Citing financial difficulties, Allen University (Columbia, SC) discontinued its football team in early 2006 after three years of varsity play as an NAIA independent team. A club-level team had played in 2001 and 2002. The helmet design shown above is the only one for which I ever received any information, but it is certainly possible that others were used, particularly during the earlier years of the program. I believe that yellow helmets may have been used for a while, but perhaps only by the club-level team.

BLACKBURN

? - 1999? 2000? - 2002? 2003? - 2005
2006 2007 - 2008

Blackburn College (Carlinville, IL) announced the termination of its intercollegiate football team on January 21, 2009. The team had competed at the NCAA Division III level for many years, and in the Saint Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference during 2008, the team's final season.

I have received some partial information about a few other helmet designs used by Blackburn during the early 1990s: in 1990, the team used black helmets with silver facemasks and one single stripe; the helmets were "blank" until about midway through the football season, then silver uniform numerals were added to the sides of the helmets. In 1991, the facemasks were changed to black, two white stripes were added on either side of the silver stripe, and the numerals were replaced with the word "Blackburn" in silver, outlined in white. In 1992, the facemask color was changed again to red, the stripe sequence was altered to red-white-red, and the "Blackburn" decal was replaced with a white block "B" outlined in red. This design was used through at least the 1993 season. I would greatly appreciate photographs of any of these helmets. Thanks to Corny for this information.

CALIFORNIA STATE, LOS ANGELES

c.late 1960s

The helmet design shown above was apparently used by this team during at least the 1966 and 1967 seasons. Cal State Los Angeles (also referred to as Los Angeles State) had a football team until 1978 which competed at the NCAA College Division level (predecessor of Division II). The team's nickname was Diablos.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

c.1960s c.late 1980s?/early 1990s?

UCSB had an intercollegiate football team for several decades through the 1971 season, when the program was first dropped. It was resumed in 1984 and dropped again after the 1991 season.

Below is a photograph of another design used by the team; this photograph is from the 1971 season.

CAMERON

The helmet design used by the team (then known as Cameron State) in 1968 has been described as having a dark shell (probably red) with a white "C" logo said to be similar in appearance to the one used by Cincinnati in 1969.

CANISIUS

? - 1999? 2000 - 2001 2002

Canisius (Buffalo, NY) announced the dropping of its football program on October 31, 2002. The Golden Griffins participated in the NCAA Division I-AA Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference during their last several seasons, and in Division III earlier.

CHICO STATE

? - 1982 1983 - ?

Chico State (CA) had a football team at the NCAA Division II level until 1997. The small photograph here shows what may have been the last helmet design used by the team; another photograph that I have, which is of even lower quality than this one, but in color, indicates that the helmets were a crimson or red color, with the script "Cats" logo being white. The two designs shown above were in use during the early 1980s. Additional information would be appreciated.

COLORADO COLLEGE

? - 2001 2002 - 2008

Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO) announced the discontinuation of its intercollegiate football team on March 24, 2009, citing "a mandate from the school's board of trustees to reduce spending by $8 million to $12 million during the next fiscal year". The college's geographical isolation from other football-playing schools was apparently also a factor in the decision. The team had played at the NCAA Division III level for many years, and was a member of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference in 2007 and 2008.

The above two helmet designs are the only ones for which I have received any information.

DANA

? - 1999 2000 - 2002 2003
2004(?) 2004 - 2007 2008 - 2009
*see note 1 below

Dana College (Blair, NE) announced that it would be closing on June 30, 2010. At the time of the announcement the college's football team had been a member of the NAIA Great Plains Athletic Conference for several years.

*1 It is unclear to me whether Dana ever actually used this design in 2004. I received information from the college prior to the 2004 season indicating that this design would be used by the team, but the only photographs I saw from any of the team's actual games showed the next helmet (with stripes) being used. Additional information would be appreciated.

EVANSVILLE

c.early 1970s c.mid 1970s

Evansville (IN) was a member of the NCAA Division I-AA Pioneer Football League when the university dropped its football program following the 1997 season. The team's last helmet design featured a purple shell, white facemask, and a logo consisting of the word "Aces" in a script font, colored white, as shown in the photograph here.

I would appreciate information about any other helmet designs used by the team.

FAIRFIELD

? - c.2000 2002

Fairfield (Fairfield, CT) discontinued its intercollegiate football program in February 2003, the third team from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference to do so in a three-month span.

During at least some games during the 2001 season, Fairfield used a logo that was slightly different from the one shown on the first helmet above - the letters were larger and a stag's head was added at the end of the word "STAGS". I would appreciate a copy of this logo so that I might add this helmet to the site. Below is a photograph of this design (thanks to Eric L. for this picture).

GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN

1983 - 1989

Georgia Southwestern had a football team only from 1983 through 1989 which used only the helmet design shown above. The team played at the NAIA level and was known as the "Hurricanes".

IONA

c.mid 1990s? c.late 1990s ? - 2001?
*see note 1 below
2005 only? 2002 - 2004; 2006 - 2008

Iona College (New Rochelle, NY) announced the discontinuation of its intercollegiate football team on November 20, 2008. A press release from the college stated that "The dissolution of the MAAC Football League after the 2007 season and the lack of equitable opponents in Division I FCS football was [sic] the main factor in the decision".

*1 This helmet was in use at least as early as 1994, according to site visitor Justin S. Earlier helmet logos included an interlocking "IC" on gold shells, which was used on both gold and maroon helmets at different times.

LA SALLE

1997 - 2001 2002 - 2003 2004
2005 - 2007

La Salle announced the termination of its intercollegiate football program on November 19, 2007; the "steady dissolution of the MAAC Football League and the changing landscape of collegiate football" were cited as reasons for the university's decision. The team had been restored in 1997 following a 56-year hiatus.

I believe that the four helmet designs shown above were the only ones used by the team during its 11-year run.

MANSFIELD

? - 2000? 2001? - 2005

Mansfield (Mansfield, PA) was a member of the NCAA Division II Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference when the termination of the program was announced on November 16, 2006, an 0-10 2006 season having been completed by the team a few days earlier. "Mansfield University is too small an institution to support a football program in the manner it deserves," (University president Maravene) Loeschke said in a statement. She said the decision was troubling to former Mansfield football players, but said the school would consider reinstating the program if it could raise an endowment to fund it. "If we are able to raise sufficient funds in this way, we will open discussion about re-establishing a football program at whatever level - Division II, Division III, or Independent League - we can properly support," Loeschke said. (source for these quotes: article entitled "Mansfield eliminates football program", dated November 16, 2006, at centredaily.com (link.)).

In 2006, the last Mansfield team had worn a new helmet logo, apparently a large white "M", on its black helmets; below is a photo of the 2006 helmet. I would appreciate a copy of the 2006 helmet logo, so that I may add this one to the web site.

MASSACHUSETTS-BOSTON

UMass-Boston had lost 29 of its last 30 games and was a member of the NCAA Division III New England Football Conference when the college announced the disbanding of its football program at the end of the 2000 season. The helmet design shown below is one that the team was using during at least the last year or two of its existence.

MASSACHUSETTS-LOWELL

c.late 1990s 2001? - 2003

UMass-Lowell was a member of the NCAA Division II Northeast-10 Conference at the time the school announced the termination of its intercollegiate football program in March 2003. Another design used in the last few years by UMass-Lowell featured the school's name in red and white letters, worn on blue helmet shells; this one was used (I believe) chronologically between the two designs shown here.

MORRIS BROWN

Morris Brown College, an historically Black college in Atlanta, GA, announced the suspension of all its intercollegiate athletic teams in May 2003; the school was in the midst of a financial crisis and had lost its accreditation earlier in the year. The football team had recently moved to NCAA Division I-AA where it competed as an independent. The helmet design shown above was used by the team during at least its last couple of years.

MOUNT SENARIO

Mount Senario College (Ladysmith, WI) announced the discontinuation of all its intercollegiate athletic programs on December 12, 2001. The Fighting Saints had competed in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference prior to the announcement. Shown above is a helmet used by the team around 1999 or 2000; what I believe to be the last design used by the team is shown in the photograph below (the blue helmet); a copy of the logo used on this helmet would be greatly appreciated. The logo appears to simultaneously represent the letter "M" and a mountain.

NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY

NJCU's football team used this design during the last year or two of its existence; the team was discontinued in March 2003 for financial reasons. NJCU had been a member of the New Jersey Athletic Conference prior to the program's termination.

NEW ORLEANS

UNO had a club-level team from 1965 until 1971, which used this helmet for at least part of that time. For information about the UNO team and efforts to reinstate it in the near future, perhaps at the I-AA non-scholarship level, please visit privateerfootball.com. Thanks to Jim T. for information on this helmet.

NIAGARA

This design was used by Niagara's (NY) club level team around the year 1980.

NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS

The NIU team was discontinued in 1988. The helmet design used by the team from at least 1977 through 1980 has been described to me as featuring a brown shell with gray facemask, and a "screaming eagle" decal on the sides. Photographs would be appreciated.

NORTHWOOD (TX)

1968 1969 1970

Northwood Institute (now Northwood University), located in Cedar Hill, Texas, had a football team from 1968 through 1971. The team was known as the Cavaliers in 1968, and as the Knights during subsequent years.

PARSONS

? - 1964 1965 - 1968 1969 - ?

Parsons College (Fairfield, IA) had a football team from 1893 through 1970; the school closed in June 1973. The team was known as the Wildcats.

PAUL QUINN

2000 - 2005? 2006?

Paul Quinn College (Dallas, TX) had an NAIA independent football team for a short time during the early 2000s - specifically 2000 (I think) through 2006. The team used plain gold helmets for several years, but I have received photographs from a game against Howard Payne in 2006 in which the team can be seen wearing plain purple helmets. The team apparently did not ever use a helmet logo.

The college also had a team several decades earlier, which played its last season in 1967.

PLATTSBURGH STATE

c.1973

The clearest photograph that I have received of any helmet design used by Plattsburgh State (Plattsburgh, NY) shows the helmet design above - note that the logo is substantially different from the one used at the same time by the NFL's Cardinals (who were based in Saint Louis at that time). Other photographs (see below) that I have received (including additional ones allegedly from the 1973 season) show a logo that very closely resembles the one used by the NFL team - I would appreciate clarification as to specifically when these different logos were in use.

The white helmet with cardinal head logo was reportedly a new design for the 1973 season. The team is reported to have used "various designs" prior to 1973, including "midnight blue with no logo" in 1972. The more NFL-looking logo was apparently used with at least one red stripe, and with red facemasks, during later years - again I would appreciate specific information as to when these changes were made. The team was discontinued in 1979.

PRINCIPIA

? - 2008

Principia (Elsah, IL) announced the "suspension" of its football team in late January 2009. Interestingly, financial reasons were not blamed, but rather concerns about "the small size of the team, the amount of experience among team members, the level of competition on the current schedule, and our ability to prepare athletes and coaches to compete effectively" (source: quote attributed to college President Jonathan Palmer, appearing in "Football suspended" by Maija Baldauf and K.C. Gahlon, The Principia Pilot, February 6, 2009).

The team used plain gold helmets during its last several seasons, and I have never received any information about earlier helmet designs used by the team.

SAINT MARY OF THE PLAINS

This helmet was used by Saint Mary of the Plains (Dodge City, KS), an NAIA team which participated in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference, during the late 1960s and 1970s. The school closed in 1992. A later helmet logo was described as a "stylized 'St Marys' in script"; this was used during the late 1980s through the team's final season.

SAINT MARY'S (CA)

c.1983 ? - 1999 2000 - 2002
2003 - 2004

ST. JOHN'S (NY)

? - 2001 2002

St. John's (Jamaica, NY) announced the discontinuation of its football team on December 16, 2002; the team participated in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference during its last year.

ST. PETER'S

? - 1998 2003 - 2004 1999 - 2002; 2005 - 2006

St. Peter's (Jersey City, NJ) had an intercollegiate football team from 1971 through 2006, so there are probably several more historical helmet designs for this team. 

SAN FRANCISCO STATE

This helmet design was used by at least the last two San Francisco State teams in 1993 and 1994; an earlier design has been described as being identical to this one, but with the addition of a logo consisting of "an 'SF' shaped like a gator". The team played at the NCAA Division II level during its last few years.

SANTA CLARA

? - 1982 1983 - 1993

These are apparently the last two helmet designs used by Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA) prior to the termination of its football program after the 1993 season. For information about efforts to resurrect football at Santa Clara, please visit Let Them Play.com.

SIENA

? - 2000 2002 2003

The intercollegiate football program at Siena (Loudonville, NY) was terminated January 21, 2004. Siena had been a member of the NCAA Division I-AA Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference from 1993 through 2003, and a member of NCAA Division III from 1988 through 1992.

In 2001 Siena used helmets of a darker shade of green than were used the next two years. These featured a yellow block "S" logo which was quite similar to the one used by Stanford, and black facemasks. I would appreciate some photographs of the 2001 helmet, and a copy of the helmet logo for that year, so that I may add this one to the web site. Information about earlier helmets would also be appreciated.

SI TANKA-HURON

? - 2002? 2003

This college, which was located in Huron, South Dakota, closed on April 1, 2005. Its football team had been a member of the NAIA Dakota Athletic Conference during its last few years.

The football team was using a new helmet logo in 2004 which can be seen in the photograph below. The logo featured an eagle with upraised wings and the word "SITANKA" between the wings, and I will need a copy of this logo in order to add this one to the web site. The helmet logo is similar to, but not identical, to one which appeared in the upper-left corner of the team's web site, which is still on the internet as of May 5, 2005, despite the school's closing.

SONOMA STATE

This design was used by the team at Sonoma State University (Sonoma, CA) during at least a few seasons in the early 1990s. This was apparently not the last design used by the team, however; I have seen some photographs from the late 1990s showing the team using black helmets with a logo consisting of the word "Sonoma" across a pair of crossed swords.

SWARTHMORE

Swarthmore College (PA) announced the discontinuation of its football program on December 2, 2000. The Garnet had gone 4-5 during the 2000 season and had been a member of the NCAA Division III Centennial Conference. The helmet shown here was used during at least the last year or two of the program's existence. The previous helmet was maroon with a white block "S" logo, white facemask, and one white stripe.

TARKIO

The last Tarkio (Tarkio, MO) football team played in 1990 as a member of the NAIA Heart of America Athletic Conference; the college closed its doors shortly thereafter. The team was known as the "Owls". The helmet design shown above was used by the team at some unknown point in its history - probably during the 1970s or 1980s, based on its appearance in the photographs that I received.

The 1971 helmet has been described as "all white with a large deep purple T - the underside of the T was curved up to meet the center line".

VERMONT

? - 1972 1973 - 1974

The two helmet designs illustrated above are believed to be the last two used by Vermont's football team, which played its last season in 1974. The two photographs are from the 1960s; these show what are apparently white (or perhaps yellow) helmets with a dark "catamount" logo on the sides ("Catamounts" was the team name). I would greatly appreciate additional information about other helmet designs used by Vermont during the 1960s and early 1970s, especially color photographs.

The 1964 Vermont helmet has been described as having a white shell, green/gold/green stripes, and a "catamount logo" on the sides.

WESTERN WASHINGTON

? - 1999 2000 - 2005 2006 - 2008

Citing financial reasons, the difficulty of scheduling games against regional opponents, and the need to preserve other intercollegiate sports, WWU announced the termination of its 105-year-old football team on January 9, 2009. The team had competed at the NCAA Division II level for many years.

Partial information has been received about two earlier helmet designs: during the mid-1970s the team was using dark blue helmets with the same logo as is used by the NFL's Minnesota Vikings; at another unspecified time, the team used silver helmets with a blue version of that same logo.

WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE

This design was reported to have been used by the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee from 1964 through 1974, the 1974 team being the school's last one, but it has been subsequently reported to me that this is in error, as evidenced by the photographs at this link - http://guides.library.uwm.edu/content.php?pid=106313&sid=799627 - which show the team using what were apparently gold or silver helmets during several of those years. The photographs do suggest that the team used plain black helmets in 1973 and 1974.

Discontinued Junior College Teams

MARIN

? - 2008

The College of Marin (Kentfield, CA) football team was discontinued following the 2008 season. The team was known as the "Mariners".

NORTH IOWA AREA C.C.

? - 2008

This team, known as the "Trojans", played its last season in 2008. The helmet design shown above was in use during at least the 2008 season.

ROCK VALLEY

? - 2008 2009

The Rock Valley College (Rockford, IL) team was cancelled on January 28, 2010, with academic deficiencies by the team cited as the reason. The team's last two known helmet designs are shown above. An earlier design (year of use unknown) appears in the photo below:

VERMILION C.C.

The Vermilion Community College (Ely, MN) team was discontinued following the 2009 season. The last known helmet design used by the football team is shown in the photograph below - I would appreciate a copy of the "IRONMEN" logo worn on this helmet.