Sooner Athletic Conference

Sooner Athletic Conference


ARIZONA CHRISTIAN	LANGSTON	LOUISIANA CHRISTIAN
"Firestorm"	"Lions"	"Wildcats"
Phoenix, AZ	Langston, OK	Pineville, LA


LYON	OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE STATE	OTTAWA UNIVERSITY ARIZONA
"Scots"	"Aggies"	"Spirit"
Batesville, AR	Goodwell, OK	Surprise, AZ


SOUTHWESTERN ASSEMBLIES OF GOD	TEXAS COLLEGE	TEXAS WESLEYAN
"Lions"	"Steers"	"Rams"
Waxahachie, TX	Tyler, TX	Fort Worth, TX


WAYLAND BAPTIST
"Pioneers"
Plainview, TX

Historical Helmets

ARIZONA CHRISTIAN


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.

LANGSTON


1998	2002	2003


1997; 1999; ? - 2001; 2004 (some games)	2004? - ?	? - 2011


2012	2013 - September 20, 2014	September 27, 2014
		*see note 1 below


'A'	'B'	'C'
October 4, 2014(?) - 2015	2015	2016
*see note 1 below


'D'	'E'	'F'
2016	2016	2016
*see note 2 below	*see note 3 below


'G'	'H'	'I'
2017 -	2017	2017
*see note 4 below


'J'	'K' (and 'K1')	'L'
2019 -	2019 -	2022? -
	*see note 5 below

During recent years Langston has used the following sequences of helmet designs; very little information has been found for both 2021 and 2022, and it is possible that other helmet designs have been used:

2022: ?-L-?; ?-?-?; L-?-?; L

2021: ?-J-?; ?-?-K1; ?-J-?; ?

2020*: J-J-?; J-? (no information for March 27 at Lyon or April 10 vs Ottawa University Arizona)

2019: J-K-K; K-K-K; K-K-K; K

2018: G-G-G; G?-?-?; G-G-X; G-G ('X' refers to a forfeit victory against Bacone; the game was not played. The last game in 2018 was an NAIA playoff game at Kansas Wesleyan.)

2017: G-H-G; G-H-?; G-G-G; I-G (no information for game #6 vs Texas College)

2016: C-E-D; D-D-E; F-?-E (no information for game #8 vs Lyon)

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

Langston has a history of switching helmet designs very often and the team has likely used several other designs besides those mentioned here, particularly during the period from about 1999 to 2012.

In 2002 and 2003 the team used navy blue helmets shells, with a different "LU" logo each year (the 2003 logo shown in the photograph below). The 2002 logo may not have been worn during all of the team's games - "plain" blue helmets may have been used occasionally.

Langston may have used plain orange helmets several additional times from about 2004 through 2012.

*1 Langston switched to blue helmets for game #4 of the 2014 season (at Hardin-Simmons), having used the 2013 helmet design for the first three games of 2014. During game #4 at least two different "LU" logos were in use by Langston, both of which may be seen in the photograph below. The one represented above appeared to be the more predominant one based on a limited number of available photographs. I was unable to locate photographs for all of the teams games in 2014, but the helmets were blue during at least games #4, 6, and 10, and the team had switched to a blue "LU" logo with orange outline by at least game #6.

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

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

*4 The lion logo is worn on the left side only of this design; the right side has blue uniform numerals (as represented below).

*5 Uniform numbers are worn on both sides of design 'K'; they are present on the left side only of design 'K1' while on the right side is apparently an "LU" logo of which no sufficiently clear photographs have been located.

LOUISIANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY


2000 - 2005	2006	2007 - 2018
		*see note 1 below


2019 - 2020*	2021	2022 -
*see note 2 below	*see note 2 below	*see note 3 below

Prior to November 16, 2021 this school was named Louisiana College. Louisiana College had a football team through the 1968 season, after which the team was discontinued until its restoration in 2000.

*1 Beginning apparently with the second game of the 2018 season the "LC" logo on the right side of the helmet was replaced with a "wildcat head" logo (as represented below); this logo apparently remained in place for the remainder of the 2018 schedule.

*2 On both these designs the "wildcat head" logo is present on the left side only; a different logo is present on the right side (as represented below).

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

LYON


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


'C'	'D'	'E'
2019 - 2020	2021	2022 -


'F'	'G'
2021	2021 -

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

2022: G-E-E; G-G-?; G-?-G; G (no information for game #6 at Arizona Christian and game #8 at Southwestern Assemblies of God)

2021: D-F-F; G-G?-D; G?-G-F; ? (no information for game #10 vs Texas Wesleyan)

2019 & 2020*: C (all games)

2018: A-B-X; A-B-B; A-B?-A; B-B ('X' refers to a forfeit victory against Bacone; the game was not played).

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

This team played its first season of football in 2015.

*1 Uniform numerals are present on the left side only of this design; the right side has a logo (as represented below).

OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE STATE


? - 1999?	2000? - 2001	2002


2003	2004	2005


2006	2007 - 2010	2011


2012 - October 5, 2013	October 12, 2013- November 9, 2013	2014
*see note 1 below	*see note 2 below


2015	2017	2016; 2018 -
		*see note 3 below

*1 This design has an asymmetrical stripe sequence - the white middle stripe is flanked by a red stripe on the left side, and by a blue stripe on the right side. It was used during the first six games of the 2013 season.

*2 First worn during the 2013 home game against Texas College, this design was used during the last five games in 2013.

*3 In 2016 uniform numerals were worn on the left side only; the right side was "blank". In 2018, the uniform numerals were again worn on the left side only; a logo was worn on the right side (as represented below).

OTTAWA UNIVERSITY ARIZONA


2018	2019 -

This team played its first season of football in 2018.

SOUTHWESTERN ASSEMBLIES OF GOD


? - 1999	2000 only(?)	2001?


2002	2003 - 2005	2006 - 2012


2013 - 2014	2015 - 2019	2020 -
	*see note 1 below	*see note 2 below

*1 This design features numerals on its left side only; the right side has the same "lion head" logo which was used in 2013 and 2014.

*1 This design has uniform numbers on its left side only; the right side a "lion head" logo (as represented below).

TEXAS COLLEGE


2003	2005 - 2010	2011 (early season)
		*see note 1 below


2011 - 2012	2013 - 2014	2015 - 2016
		*see note 2 below


2018	2017; 2019	2021 -

Texas College had a football team from at least 1950 through 1961, at which point the team was discontinued and not restored until 2003. The 2003 team may have been a club-level team rather than a varsity team.

*1 Helmet decals were absent during at least games #1 (August 27 at Belhaven), #2 (September 3 at Lamar), and #4 (September 17 at Texas Southern) of the 2011 season. The circular helmet logo was in use during the September 24, 2011 home game against Northwestern Oklahoma State.

*2 During at least some games of the 2016 season the "TC" logo was worn only on the left side of each helmet while uniform numerals were worn on the right side (as represented below).

TEXAS WESLEYAN


2017 -

2017 was the first season for this team.

WAYLAND BAPTIST


2012 - 2015	2016 - 2017	2018 -
	*see note 1 below	*see note 1 below

Football was reinstated at WBU in 2012; the school had last had a football team in 1940.

*1 The logo is worn on the left side only of both these designs; uniform numerals are worn on the right side (as represented below).