New Jersey Athletic Conference


CHRISTOPHER
NEWPORT
KEAN MONTCLAIR STATE
"Captains" "Cougars" "Red Hawks"
Newport News, VA Union, NJ Upper Montclair, NJ
ROWAN SALISBURY TCNJ
"Profs" "Sea Gulls" "Lions"
Glassboro, NJ Salisbury, MD Trenton, NJ
WILLIAM PATERSON
"Pioneers"
Wayne, NJ

Rowan used a new helmet design during the team's first game in 2023; the helmets appear to be brown with the school name on the sides (photograph below). I will need a copy of this new helmet logo in order to add this one to the website.


Historical Helmets

CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT

2001 - 2009? 2010 - 2013 2014
*see note 1 below *see note 1 below
2015 - 2016 2015 - 2018 2019
*see note 2 below *see note 3 below
2020* - 2021 2022 -
*see note 4 below *see note 5 below

2001 was the first year for the CNU football team.

*1 For the period 2001 through 2010 on both of these helmets a different logo was worn on the right sides (as shonw below). Beginning in 2011 the "CNU" logo was worn on both sides of the helmet.

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

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

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

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


KEAN

1970 1970 - 1971 1972
1973 1974 1975 - 1976
2000 - 2002 2003 2004 - 2005
2006 (first game?) 2010 2006 - 2009; 2011 - 2012
2013 2014 2015 - 2018
*see note 1 below
2019 -

The Kean football team first played in 1970. The school name was Newark State College until 1973, and the team nickname was "Squires" prior to 1985 - hence the "N" and "S" logos on some of the earlier helmets.

*1 This design has uniform numerals on its left side only; the right side has a "KEAN"/claw logo (as represented below).


MONTCLAIR STATE

1978 - 1988 1996 - 2004 2005 - 2019
*see note 1 below
2020* - 2022 2023 -

*1 The word above the circle on this helmet logo is "INDIANS", which was the team nickname at the time.


ROWAN

1972 - 1983 1984 - 1986 1987
1988 - 1989 1990 1991 - 1992
c.1990s ? - 2003; 2005 2006 - 2009
2010 - 2012 October 27, 2012 2013
*see note 1 below *see note 2 below
2014 2015 - 2016 2004; 2017 -
2018 - 2019; 2021 2022 - 2023 -

Rowan University was previously named Rowan College of New Jersey (from 1992 to 1997) and Glassboro State College (prior to September 1, 1992).

*1 Worn during at least one game in 2012 (October 27 vs Morrisville State).

*2 In 2013 uniform numerals were worn only on the left side of each helmet; on the right side was worn the same "RU" + "owl head" logo which was used the previous year.


SALISBURY

1999 - 2003 2004 - 2005 2006 - 2010
2020* 2011 - 2019; 2021 -

TCNJ  The College of New Jersey

1999 only(?) ? - 1998?; 2000 - 2010 2011
*see note 1 below
2012 2013 2014 - 2017
2018 2019 - 2021 -
*see note 2 below
*see note 3 below

*1 The logo on this helmet commemorates the team's 75th anniversary and was presumably used only during the 1999 season.

*2 The 'TCNJ' logo is worn on the left side only of this design; several different logos have been worn on the right side (as depicted below). During TCNJ's first game in 2021 the right side was "blank".

September 11, 2021 2021 2022 -

*3 The logo on this design is worn on the left side of the helmet only; the right side is "blank".


WILLIAM PATERSON

? - 1999? 2003 - 2004 2000? - 2002; 2005 - 2008
*see note 1 below
2009 - 2012 2013 - 2015 2016 - 2017
2018 2019 2020*
*see note 2 below *see note 3 below
2021 -

*1 It has been reported to me that this design was also in use around the years 1989 and/or 1990.

*2 This design has the "WP" logo on its left side only; uniform numerals are worn on the right side (as depicted below).

*3 The "WP" logo is present on the left side only of this design; the right side is "blank".