Frontier Conference

Frontier Conference


ARIZONA CHRISTIAN	CARROLL	EASTERN OREGON
"Firestorm"	"Saints"	"Mountaineers"
Phoenix, AZ	Helena, MT	La Grande, OR


COLLEGE OF IDAHO	MONTANA STATE- NORTHERN	MONTANA TECH
"Yotes"	"Lights"	"Orediggers"
Caldwell, ID	Havre, MT	Butte, MT


MONTANA WESTERN	ROCKY MOUNTAIN	SOUTHERN OREGON
"Bulldogs"	"Bears"	"Raiders"
Dillon, MT	Billings, MT	Ashland, OR

Historical Helmets

ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY


2014 - September 9, 2017	September 16, 2017 - November 4, 2017	2018
		*see note 1 below


2019 -

This team played its first season of football in 2014.

*1 Apparently during the entire 2018 season ACU used a helmet design which was "blank" on its left side, but had on its right side the same "bird head" logo worn on both sides of the helmet in 2017.

CARROLL COLLEGE


? - 1999	2000 - 2018	2019 -
		*see note 1 below

*1 Uniform numerals are worn on the left side only of this design; a "C" logo adorns the right side (as represented below).

EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY


? - 1977	1978	1979 - 1983


1984 - 1986	1987	1988 - ?


? - 1999?	2000? - 2008	2009 - 2012


2013	2014	2019 - 2021
	*see note 1 below


2022 - 2023	2015 - 2018; 2024 -

Partial information is available for some earlier EOU helmets; photographs of these are below:

Both of these helmet designs are probably blue in color but no color photographs have yet been located for either of them. The "EOSC" on the earliest design is probably yellow or gold, but may be white instead. The logo on the second helmet appears to have more than one color.

*1 In 2014 uniform numerals were worn on the left side only; on the right side was the same "E" logo which was used on both sides in 2013.

COLLEGE OF IDAHO


2014 - 2015	2016 - 2017	2018 - 2021


'A'	'B'	'C'
2022	2022	2022


'D'	'E'	'F'
2023 -	2023 -	2023 -


'G'	'H'
2023 -	2024 -

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

2023: D-D-E; F-F-F; F-F-F; G-F-F; E (the last three games being NAIA playoff games at Montana Western, at Grand View, and at Keiser)

2022: A-A-B; A-A-A; B-B-C; A

MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY-NORTHERN


1999 - 2000?	2001? - 2003	2004 - 2012


2013 - 2014	2018 - 2021	2015 - 2017; 2022 -

The MSU-Northern football team played its first season in 1999. The school had a football team during a previous era ending in 1971; at this time the school's name was Northern Montana College.

MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY


c.1980s	? - 2011	2012 - 2016
	*see note 1 below


2017	2018	2019 -
		*see note 2 below


2021 (last 7 games)	2021 (1st 3 games); 2022 -
	*see note 3 below

*1 This design was apparently in use throughout at least the period 2000 - 2011.

*2 The "pickaxe and hammer" logo is worn on the left side only of this design; a different logo adorns the right side (as depicted below).

*3 The "pickaxe and hammer" logo is worn on the left side only of this design; a different logo adorns the right side (as depicted below).

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN


c.1970s	c.late 1970s	c.1980s


? - 1999?	2000 only?	2001


2002 - 2009?	October 18, 2014; October 25, 2014; October 24, 2015	November 8, 2014


2014 - 2015	November 14, 2015	2016
		*see note 1 below


2022	2017 - 2021; 2023 -
	*see note 2 below

In 2001 Montana Western used red helmets with a logo consisting of a white cartoon bulldog, which was very similar to the one used by Samford University at one time (the Samford helmet is shown on the Southern Conference page at this site). I would appreciate a CLEAR photograph of Montana-Western's 2001 helmet.

*1 The large "W" is present on the left side only of this design; gray uniform numerals adorn the right side (as shown below).

*2 Uniform numerals are present on the left side only of this design; a "bulldog head" logo is present on the right side (as shown below).

ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE


c.1970s	c.1990	1995 - 1998


1999 - 2000	2001 - 2003	2004 - 2009


	'A'	'B' (and 'B1')
2010 - 2011	2012 - 2018	2017 - 2018
	*see note 1 below	*see notes 1 & 2 below


'C'	'D'	'E'
2019 - 2021	2020* - 2021	2022 -
*see note 3 below	*see note 4 below	*see note 5 below


'F'	'G'	'H'
2022 -	2023 -	2023 -
*see note 6 below	*see note 6 below	*see note 5 below

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

2023: G-H-H; H-H-H; H-G-G?; G

2022: E-E-F; E-E-E; E-F-E; F

2021: D-D-C; D?-D-D; D-C-?; D

2020*: D-C-C; C

2019: B1-B1-C; C-B1-B1; C-B1-C; C-C

2018: A-B-B; A-B-B; A-B-A; A-B-A (the last game being an NAIA playoff game at Morningside)

2017: A-B-B; B-A-B; A-B-A; A-A

*1 On both these designs in 2017 and 2018 the 'RMC' logo was worn on the left side only, with the right side left "blank". Prior to 2017 design 'A' had the 'RMC' logo on both sides.

*2 Design 'B1' differs from 'B' in that uniform numbers are worn on the right side of 'B1' (as depicted below).

*3 The "claw marks" are present on the left side only of this design; a "bear head" logo is worn on the right side (as depicted below).

*4 The "ROCKY" logo is worn on the left side only of this design; uniform numbers are present on the right side (as depicted below).

*5 The "bear head" logo is worn on the left side only of both designs 'E' and 'H'; a "claw mark" logo is present on the right side of both (as depicted below).

*6 The 'ROCKY' logo is worn on the left side only of designs 'F' and 'G'; uniform numbers are worn on the right side of both of these (as depicted below).

SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY


? - 1966	1967 - 1968	1969 - 1970


c.1990s	? - 2000?	2001? - 2005


2006 - 2010	2011 - 2023	2024 -