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Helmet Stickers / Buckeye Leaves (all merged)

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espn.com

Buckeye stickers a tradition 40 years in the making

By John D. Lukacs
ESPN.com
(Archive)


Updated: September 12, 2008
The year was 1968 -- that much of the story we know. According to Ohio State lore, the Buckeyes were on the cusp of a championship campaign when longtime trainer Ernie Biggs conceived of the idea of awarding players helmet stickers resembling buckeye leaves, presumably for motivational purposes.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3583496#

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Woody Hayes, talking with QB Rex Kern in 1969, handed out the first buckeye stickers forty years ago.


Coach Woody Hayes embraced the idea and, 40 falls later, sticker-cluttered helmets across the country reveal that Biggs' brainstorm has, well, stuck.

It's the time of year when dog bones are appearing on Georgia's helmets, paw prints on Clemson's and tomahawks on those of Florida State, just to name a few. But it all started with those buckeye leaves. Which begs the question: why? The exact reason has been lost, perhaps in a cloud of dust, to history.

"Woody was always trying to get that extra motivational edge," proposed Rex Kern, OSU's quarterback during that magical fall of '68.


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ArtilleryBuck;1287270; said:
They are absolutely a dark green.
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Seriously, I have some buckeye stickers in my hand right now and they are dark green, however the helmet I have upstairs the buckeye leaves are black. Like Pooh says this is just "getting curiouser and curiouser".....
 
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