Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference


AUSTIN	CENTENARY COLLEGE	LYON
"Kangaroos"	"Gentlemen"	"Scots"
Sherman, TX	Shreveport, LA	Batesville, AR


MCMURRY	TEXAS LUTHERAN
"War Hawks"	"Bulldogs"
Abilene, TX	Seguin, TX

This conference, which last sponsored the sport of football in 2016, will do so again in 2024. Centenary will have a football team for the first time since 1947 (an 'exhibition' schedule was played in 2023).

Historical Helmets

AUSTIN COLLEGE


? - c.1996	2005 - 2007	2008 - 2009


2014 - 2016	c.1997 - 2004; 2018 (1st 2 games)	2010 - 2013; 2017 -

LYON COLLEGE


	'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:

2023: D-D-G; G-G-D; D-D-D; G? (sequence includes two games against 'non-countable' opponents: game #7 vs John Melvin University, and game #10 vs Centenary)

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

McMURRY UNIVERSITY


? - 1961	1962	1963 - 1965


1966 - 1971	1972	1973


1974 - 1981	1984	1985


1986	1982 - 1983; 1987	1988 - 1990


1991 - 1993	1994 - 1995	1996 - 2004


2005 - 2006	2007 - 2008	2009 - 2012


2013	2014	2015


2016	2017 - 2018	2019 - 2023
*see note 1 below		*see note 2 below


2024 -

McMurry's team was called the "Indians" prior to the 2011 football season. The team's 1962 football helmets featured a strange symbol that I cannot identify from the clearest available photographs (below). What is it? (One person suggested that it's a "feather".) Does anyone have a clearer photograph?

In the mid-1980s McMurry used several different helmet designs which I am presently unable to add to the web site; below are photographs of several of these:

In 1982, 1983, and 1987 the team used an "arrowhead" logo containing a small version of the "McM" logo that was used on some of the other helmet designs. The color of both the arrowhead and the facemask are unknown to me at present, but both were probably white or gray;

The 1984 helmet featured the team name "INDIANS" in letters of some unknown color (probably white);

In 1985 a rather intricate "Indian head" logo was used which appears to have contained some unusual colors for McMurry (gray or blue, and perhaps black). The facemasks were also apparently black in 1985;

In 1986 another "Indian head" was used; this one with the team name in arched letters above the logo.

I would greatly appreciate better photographs of any of these helmets or additional information, particularly from former team members, equipment managers, etc.

The 1991-1993 helmet featured the same "McM" logo worn on the previous helmet. I am unsure about the colors on this helmet, but it would appear that the helmet shell was silver and that the logo was maroon.

In 2007 and 2008 McMurry used the helmet design shown in the photograph below. The helmets were maroon with a new logo, a large "M" with the school name across it. I would appreciate a copy of the helmet logo for this one, which would enable me to add this historical helmet to the web site.

*1 This design has uniform numerals on its left side only; the right side is 'blank'.

*2 Uniform numbers are worn on the left side only of this design; on the right side is an oversized "hawk head" logo (as represented below).

TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY


c.1970s	c.1980s	1998 - 2001?


2002? - 2006; 2010 - 2012; 2019; 2021	2013 - 2018	2007 - 2009; 2020*
*see note 1 below		*see note 2 below


2022 -

This team's history dates back to the early twentieth century but I have received/found very little information about helmet designs used before the late 1990s. Prior to 1996 the school name was Texas Lutheran College. TLC won the NAIA Division II football championship in both 1975 and 1976; video from these games appear to show the team using plain black helmets. Photographs from the mid-1980s appear to show white helmets with a "TLC" logo on the sides (photograph below).

*1 In 2019 the "TLU" logo was worn on the left side only; a "bulldog" logo was worn on the right side (as depicted below). In 2021 the 'TLU' logo was worn on the left side only during the first five games; the right side was "blank". The TLU logo was added to the right side beginning with game #6 (October 16 at Mary Hardin-Baylor).

*2 Apparently in 2008 only a logo was worn on the right side only of this design (as represented below).