South Atlantic Conference

BREVARD	CARSON-NEWMAN	CATAWBA
"Tornados"	"Eagles"	"Indians"
Brevard, NC	Jefferson City, TN	Salisbury, NC

LENOIR-RHYNE	MARS HILL	NEWBERRY
"Bears"	"Lions"	(no official team nickname)
Hickory, NC	Mars Hill, NC	Newberry, SC

TUSCULUM	WINGATE
"Pioneers"	"Bulldogs"
Greeneville, TN	Wingate, NC

Comments

Lenoir-Rhyne and Newberry are using new helmet designs in 2008 (shown above).

Historical Helmets

BREVARD

2006 -

2006 was the first season of football for Brevard.

CARSON-NEWMAN

1996 -

I have received little information regarding earlier helmet designs for Carson-Newman, other than some photographs showing a helmet with a "CN" logo on the sides, and some others showing a "flying eagle" logo that looks similar to the one used on the 1971 Iowa helmet. Both of these appear to be on orange helmet shells, but I do not know the years of use for either design.

It has been reported to me that the helmet design used through most of the 1980s through 1995 was similar to the current design, but with the addition of three stripes (white in the middle bordered on either side by navy blue) - a photograph of this one showing the widths of the stripes would be appreciated.

CATAWBA

1987 - 1990	c.mid 1990s -

I have received some verbal descriptions of some of Catawba's other earlier helmet designs; photographs of any of these would be appreciated greatly:

• The current logo was worn on royal blue helmets for the first couple of years when it was used (c.mid 1990s);
• The "feathered 'C'" portion of the current helmet logo (minus the arrowhead) was worn on the right sides only of silver helmets during the early 1990s, with the left sides left "blank";
• 1983 - 1986: silver helmets with blue stripes and blue players' uniform numerals;
• 1982 only(?): Washington Redskins "Indian face" logo worn on white helmets with one blue stripe; circle around logo was blue;
• c.1980 - 1981: white helmets with a logo consisting of a white circle outlined in blue, containing a blue "C", and with feathers hanging off the circle (so that the style of the logo was similar to that presently used by Utah);
• c.late 1970s: white helmets with one blue stripe and with a logo consisting of a white "C" inside a blue oval;
• c.early - mid 1970s: similar to c.late 1970s design, but the oval shape was red rather than blue.

LENOIR-RHYNE

? - 2001	2002 - 2007	2008 -

MARS HILL

1963	1960 - 1962; 1964 - 1965	1966 - 1967
	*see note 1 below

1971 - 1974	1975 - 1976	1977 - 1978

1979 - 1980	1981 - 1982	1984

1985	1986	1993 - 2002

2003	2004 -

*1 During the 1960 season, the team captains wore a slightly different design - the stripe and facemasks were white. In 1965, large white players' uniform numerals were worn at the back of the helmet, on either side of the middle stripe.

NEWBERRY

c.1988? - 2001	2002	2003 - 2007

2008 -

An earlier helmet design has been described as having a red shell with a white "arrowhead" logo (as on the Kansas City Chiefs helmets); the letters "NC" were present inside the arrowhead. I suspect that this design may have been used for many years during the 1970s and/or 1980s. Photographs would be appreciated.

TUSCULUM

? - c.1999	c.2000 -

WINGATE

2001? - 2003	2004 -

The next older helmet design used by Wingate has been described to me as being white with a blue "W", similar to that used on the helmet shown above; I would appreciate some photographs of this design.