Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association

Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association


CENTRAL MISSOURI	CENTRAL OKLAHOMA	EMPORIA STATE
"Mules"	"Bronchos"	"Hornets"
Warrensburg, MO	Edmond, OK	Emporia, KS


FORT HAYS STATE	LINCOLN	MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE
"Tigers"	"Blue Tigers"	"Lions"
Hays, KS	Jefferson City, MO	Joplin, MO


MISSOURI WESTERN STATE	NEBRASKA-KEARNEY	NORTHEASTERN STATE
"Griffons"	"Lopers"	"Riverhawks"
St. Joseph, MO	Kearney, NE	Tahlequah, OK


NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE	PITTSBURG STATE	WASHBURN
"Bearcats"	"Gorillas"	"Ichabods"
Maryville, MO	Pittsburg, KS	Topeka, KS

Historical Helmets

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI


1961 - 1962	1963	1964


1965	1967	1966; 1968


1969	December 12, 1970	1970 - 1975


1976 - 1977	1978 - 1980?	1981? - 1983
	*see note 1 below	*see note 1 below


1984 - 1998	1999 - 2000	2001 - 2004
*see note 2 below		*see note 3 below


	'A'	'B'
2005 - 2014	2015 -	2015 -


'C' (and 'C1')	'D' (and 'D1')	'E' (and 'E1','E2', & 'E3')
2016 -	2016; 2019 -	2017 -
*see note 4 below	*see note 4 below	*see note 4 below


'F' (and 'F1' & 'F2')	'G'	'H'
2017 -	2017 -	2017 -
*see note 4 below	*see note 4 below	*see note 4 below


'I'	'J'	'K'
2018 -	2019 -	2019 -
*see note 4 below	*see note 4 below	*see note 4 below


'L'	'M'	'N'
2019 -	2019 -	2021 -
*see note 4 below	*see note 4 below	*see note 4 below


'O'	'P'	'Q'
2021 -	2022 -	2022 -
*see note 4 below	*see note 4 below	*see note 4 below

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

2022: P-N-Q; P-Q-P; Q-P-P; Q-Q

2021: L-L-N; F1-F1-L; L-H1-H1; ?-O (no information for November 16 at Missouri Western State)

2020: [no schedule played]

2019: C-A-C; H-J-E3; E3-D1-E3; K-L-M; M (the last two games being NCAA Division II playoff games vs Indianapolis and at Ferris State)

2018: E1-E1-A; E1-F1-F2; G-C1-I; C1-E2

2017: C-A-E; E-F-F1; F1-E1-E1; G-H-E1

2016: A-A-A; A-C-B; A-C-D; A?-A-A

2015: A-A-A; A-A-A; A-?-B; A-A

This school's name was changed from Central Missouri State University to University of Central Missouri on September 20, 2006.

*1 The first of these two helmet designs was used during at least the 1978 and 1979 seasons, while the second was in use during at least 1981 and 1982. The 1980 helmet design may have been one or the other of these two, but a visitor to this site has suggested that the 1980 design was probably a hybrid of the other two - a decal like that used on the 1981 helmet worn on shells of the color used in 1979.

*2 The stripe sequence may have varied during the years when this design was in use; specifically, there may have been some years during which the white and black stripes bordered directly against each other (rather than having the red "gap" as shown here).

*3 During the 2004 season, the word "MISSOURI" in black letters was added inside the "tail" extending beneath the word "Central".

*4 Helmet design 'D' has the mule logo on both sides; for the other designs the right side differs from the left as depicted below.


'C'	'C1'	'D1'


'E'	'E1'	'E2'


'E3'	'F'	'F1'


'F2'	'G'	'H'


'I'	'J'	'K'


'L'	'M'	'N'


'O'	'P'	'Q'

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA


1960 - 1969	1970 - 1974	1975 - 1982


1983 - 1986	1987 - 2002	2003 - 2007


		'A'
November 12, 2011	2011	2008-2010; 2012-2019; 2022-


'B'	'C'	'D'
2021	2022 -	2022 -
	*see note 1 below


'E'
2023 -

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

2022: C-C-A; A-A-C; A-C-C; A-D

2021: B (entire season)

2019: A-A-A; A-A-A; A?-A-?; ?-A

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

EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY


		'A'
1995 - 1998	1999 - 2011	2012 -


'B'	'C'	'D'
2014	2015	2015
*see note 1 below	*see note 1 below


'E'	'F'	'G' (and 'G1')
2016; 2018 -	2016	2016; 2019
*see note 1 below	*see note 1 below	*see note 1 below


'H'	'I'	'J'
2017	2017	2017
*see note 1 below	*see note 1 below	*see note 1 below


'K'	'L'	'M'
2017	2017	2018 -
*see note 1 below	*see note 1 below	*see note 1 below


'N' (and 'N1')	'O'	'P' (and 'P1')
2018	2018	2018
*see note 1 below	*see note 1 below	*see note 1 below


'Q'	'R'	'S'
2019 -	2019 -	2019 -
*see note 1 below	*see note 1 below	*see note 1 below


'T'	'U'	'V'
2019	2021 -	2021 -

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

2022: E-E-E; E-N1-N1; N1-V-N1; P?-P?-E (the last game being vs Southeastern Oklahoma in the Live United Bowl at Texarkana, AR)

2021: M-E-M; N1-E-N1; E-U-N1; U-U-V (the last game being vs Southeastern Oklahoma in the Live United Bowl at Texarkana, AR)

2019: E-Q-E; E-E-M; R-G1-S; S-T

2018: E-E-M; M-N-O; P-P1-P1; E-P1-P1 (the last game being vs Arkansas-Monticello in the Corsicana Bowl at Corsicana, TX)

2017: H-H-H; I-I-J; J-K-K; L-I

2016: E-E-E?; E-E-E; E-F-F; G-G-E; E (the last two games being NCAA Division II playoff games vs Minnesota-Duluth and at Northwest Missouri State)

2015: A-A-B; A-A-A; C-C-C; C-D-C; C-C (the last three games being NCAA Division II playoff games at Minnesota State-Mankato, at Henderson State, and at Northwest Missouri State)

2014: A-A-B; B-A-A; A-A-B; B-B

*1 Each of these designs has a different right side as represented below:


'B'	'C'	'E'


'F'	'G'	'G1'


'H'	'I'	'J'


'K' and 'L'	'M'	'N'


'N1'	'O'	'P'


'P1'	'Q'	'R'


'S'	'U'	'V'

FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY


? - 2000	2003 - 2004	2001 - 2002; 2005 - 2006


2007 - 2010	2011 - 2014	2015 - 2017


2018	2019; 2021 -

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY


? - 2002	2003 - 2007?	2009 - 2010


2008; 2011	2012 - 2015	2016
*see note 1 below


2018 (last six games)	2017 - 2019	2020* - 2021
*see note 2 below		*see note 3 below


September 1, 2022	September 10, 2022 -	2023 -

*1 In 2011 Lincoln used helmets which were "blank" on the left side but had white uniform numbers on the right side.

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

*3 Uniform numbers are worn on the left side only of this design; a logo is present on the right side (as depicted below).

MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY


? - 1965	1966 - 1967	1968


? - 1998	1999? - 2000?	2001? - 2002


2004 - 2005	2006	2011
		*see note 1 below


		'A'
2012 - 2015	2016	2007 - 2010; 2017 - 2018


'B'	'C'	'D'
2018; 2021	2019	2020*


'E'	'F'	'G'
2022 -	2022 -	2023 -
*see note 2 below

During some games in 2023 MSSU has used a new helmet logo of the team name "Lions" (photograph below); I have been unable to locate the artwork for this new logo, which I will need in order to add this one to the website.

During recent years Missouri Southern State has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

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

2021: B (entire season)

2020*: D (entire season (one game))

2019: C (entire season)

2018: B-B-B; A-A-A; A-A-A; A-A

*1 For the 2011 season the MSSU helmet logo was modified to memorialize the victims of the Joplin tornado of May 22, 2011, which claimed an estimated 162 lives. The intersecting acronyms "JOMO" (for Joplin, Missouri) and "MOSO" (for Missouri Southern) were added to the interior of the logo, as well as "5/22" and "5:41", the date and time of the tornado's arrival at Joplin.

*2 Uniform numbers are worn on the left side only of this design; a logo adorns the right side (as represented below).

MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY


? - 1995	1996 - 1998	1999 - 2012


'A'	'B'	'C'
2015 - 2016	2013 - 2017	2017 - 2018
		*see note 1 below


'D'	'E'	'F' (and 'F1')
2017 - 2018	2018	2019; 2021
*see note 1 below		*see note 1 below for 'F1'


'G'	'H' (and 'H1')	'I'
2019	2019; 2021	2019
	*see note 1 below for 'H1'


'J'	'K'	'L'
2019	2019	2019


'M'	'N'	'O'
2020	2020	2022 -
*see note 1 below


'P'	'Q'	'R'
2022 -	2022 -	2022 -
*see note 1 below

During recent years Missouri Western State has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

2022: O-O-O; O-P-Q; Q-R-R; R-R

2021: E-F1-E; F1-F1-E; H1-H1-E; H1-H1

2020: M-N

2019: F-F-G; G-G-H; I-J-K; A-A-L

2018: E-C-C; C-E-E; C-E-E; C-C-C

2017: C-C-C; C-C-C; D-D-C; B-C

2016: B-A-A; B-?-A; B-B-A; A-A (no information for October 1 vs Northeastern State)

2015: A-B-B; A-A-A; B-B-A; A-A

*1 The right side of each of these designs differs from the left as depicted below.


'C'	'D'	'F1' and 'H1'


'M'	'P'

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY


1960 - 1968	1969 - 1971	1972 - ?


1990	1991 - 1999	2000 - 2010?


		'A'
2011? - 2013	September 11, 2014	2014 - 2019; 2021 -


'B'	'C'
2019 - 2020	2021

During recent years Nebraska-Kearney has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

2022: A (entire season)

2021: A-A-A; A-A-A; A-C-C; C-C-C; C (the last two games being NCAA Division II playoff games at Western Colorado and at Angelo State)

2020: B (both games)

2019: A-A-A; A-B-B; B-B-B; B-A-A (the last game being vs Winona State in the Mineral Water Bowl at Excelsior Springs, MO)

NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY


c.1960s	c.1969	c.mid 1990s(?)


1997? - 2001	2002	2003 - 2006


2007	2008	2009


2010 - 2013	2014 - 2016	2017 - 2018
	*see note 1 below	*see note 2 below


2019 (1st five games)	2019	2020*
*see note 3 below	*see note 3 below


2021	2022 -	2023 -

*1 From 2014 through 2016 uniform numbers were worn on the left side only of NSU's helmets; on the right side in 2014 was an oversized "riverhawk" logo and in 2016 a "normal"-sized version of the same logo was used (as depicted below). In 2015 the right side was apparently "blank".


2014	2016

*2 Uniform numbers are worn the left side only of this design; a "riverhawk" logo adorns the right side (as shown below).

*3 Both of these designs have a white "riverhawk" logo on their right side (as shown below).

NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY


? - 1962	1963 - 1966	1967 - 1969


1970 - 1971	1974 - 1978	1979 - 1982


1983 - 1985	1986	1987


1988 - 1992	1993 - ?	? - 1995


September 10, 2005	1996 - 2011	September 24, 2011 - 2012
*see note 1 below		*see note 2 below


'B'	'C'	'D'
2013	2013 - 2016	2013 - 2015


'E'	'F'	'G'
2014 - 2016; 2018 - 2019; 2021-	2016	2016


'H'	'I'	'J'
2016 - 2017	2017 - 2019; 2021 -	2017


'A'	'K'	'L'
2013 - 2017	2017	2017
		*see note 3 below


'M'	'N'	'O'
2018	2018	2018


'P'	'Q'	'R'
2019; 2021	2019; 2021	2019


'S'	'T'	'U'
2021 -	2021 -	2022 -


'V'	'W'
2022 -	2022 -

During recent years Northwest Missouri State has used the following sequences of helmet designs:

2022: I-I-U; E-E-I; V-I-T; S-S-W; W (the last two games being NCAA Division II playoff games at Ouachita Baptist and at Grand Valley State)

2021: Q-Q?-P; E-F-I; I-I-I; S-T-T; T (the last three games being NCAA Division II playoff games vs Central Washington, at Harding, and at Ferris State)

2020: [no schedule played]

2019: I-I-I; P-E-Q; Q-Q-R; I-E-E; E-E (the last three games being NCAA Division II playoff games vs Harding, vs Lindenwood, and at Ferris State)

2018: E-E-M; E-N-I; I-I-E; E-E-O; O (the last two games being NCAA Division II playoff games at Grand Valley State and at Ferris State)

2017: H-I-H; J-I-K; H-A-A; L-A-A (the last game being an NCAA Division II playoff game at Ashland)

2016: A-E-C; E-A-E; F-A-A; E-G-A; A-A-H (the last four games being NCAA Division II playoff games including the championship game against North Alabama)

2015: A-E-E; C-E-D; E-A-A; A-E-A; A-A-E (the last four games being NCAA Division II playoff games including the championship game against Shepherd)

2014: E-E-C; E-D-A; E-E-E; A-A-E

2013: A-B-B; C-A-D; B-B-B; A-B-B; A-A-B (the last four games being NCAA Division II playoff games including the championship game against Lenoir-Rhyne)

In January 2009 I received a large number of photographs of old NWMSU helmets (thanks David), which allowed me to partially document the team's helmet history back to 1961. Unfortunately, few of the photographs are in color, so uncertainties remain about what color the various helmet features were. While the team has apparently used green helmets since 1972, I do not know if the helmets have always been dark green (like the current design) - they presumably could have been a lighter shade during earlier years. The team colors were originally red and white, but I have been informed that the switch to the current colors (green and white) was made many years before 1960. Some helmet designs have also feature gold or yellow elements.

Through the 1960s the helmets apparently always had white shells. There was a single dark stripe on the helmets in 1961 and 1962, but from 1963 through 1966 the dark stripe was apparently flanked on either side by a lighter-colored stripe (probably gold). Also from 1963 through 1966, uniform numerals in some dark color were worn on the helmets. Two oval-shaped helmet logos were used from 1967 through 1971 - one containing an "M", and the other the letters "NW State". Below are photographs of the helmet designs known to have been used from 1961 through 1971.

The team apparently switched to dark-colored (probably green) helmets in 1972 (the 1977 NWMSU yearbook refers to the team as the "green and white"), possibly with one or more light-colored stripes during this first year. The helmets were apparently "plain" (without logos or stripes) from 1973 through 1978.

In 1979 an arched "BEARCATS" logo was adopted, and used through 1982. In 1983 the team switched to a script "Cats" logo, which was used through at least 1993, though possibly not for all games, and with a few different stripe combinations. Below are photos showing the two helmets logos used from 1979 through 1993.

During at least part of the 1995 season, another interesting helmet logo was used (see photo below) - this one featured the letters "NW" atop a "paw print".

*1 This design was used during the home game against Truman State in 2005 as part of an observance of the university's centennial.

*2 A red version of the traditional paw print logo was first worn during the 2011 home game against Fort Hays State; this was done as a tribute to former NWMSU head football coach Scott Boswick, who died on June 5, 2011. As an assistant coach at NWMSU Bostwick had habitually worn a red cap to enable his players to locate him easily on the sideline amongst all the green. This design remained in use through the 2011 season.

*3 The numerals '52' were worn on all NWMSU helmets during the November 4. 2017 game against Fort Hays State in honor of former team member Nicholas Turner, who had died suddenly in January 2016; 52 had been Turner's uniform number. The '52' was worn on the left side only of each helmet; a black version of the 'paw' logo was worn on the right side (as represented below).

PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY


c.1970s	c.late 1970s - 1984?	1997 - 2005


2006 - 2010	September 8, 2012; October 13, 2012	1985 - 1996; 2011 - 2013
	*see note 1 below


2014 -

This college was known as Kansas State College of Pittsburg prior to April 21, 1977. During the 1961 season the team used the helmet design visible in the very small photographs below; it would appear that the helmets were probably silver or gold in color, and had at least two dark stripes.

At another point during the early 1960s, the team wore white numerals on red helmet shells with gray faceguards. I am not aware of PSU having ever used any helmet logo other than the current script "Pitt", but I have received very little information for this team from the 1960s and 1970s.

*1 Worn during the 2012 home game vs Central Oklahoma and during the 2012 game vs Northwest Missouri State played at Kansas City, MO.

WASHBURN UNIVERSITY


1966 - 1967	1957 - 1965; 1968 - 1970	1971 - 1974


1975 - 1976	1977 - 1979	1980


1981	1982 - 1989	1990


1991 - 1993	1994 - 1995	1996 - 2001


2002	2003 - 2005	2006


2007 - 2008	2009 - 2012	2013 - 2015


	'A'	'B'
2016	2017 - 2019; 2021 -	2018


'C'	'D'
2018 - 2019; 2021 -	2023 -
*see note 1 below

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

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

2021: A-A-C; C-C-A; C-A-C; C-A-C (the last game being an NCAA Division II playoff game at Harding)

2019: A-C-C; A-A-C; C-C-A; C-C

2018: B-B-A; A-C-C; C-A-A; C-C

*1 Uniform numbers are worn on the left side only of this design; on the right side is the same "Ichabod" logo worn on both sides of design 'B'.