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Jersey / Uniform Discussion (OSU)

Mr_Burns;1583359; said:
I can appreciate the nostalgia that you undoubtedly feel for that time period. Along those lines, the current helmets are all I've ever known, and I think they are a thing of beauty. They are the one part of the uniform that I never want to see changed. I like seeing photos of the great players and knowing what time of the season the picture was taken just by how many buckeye leaves are on their helmets. Growing up, my brothers and I thought it was such a noteworthy achievement (worth announcing to the rest of the room) when a player's buckeye leaves filled one side of the helmet and began on the other side.


Exactly exactly. Eleventy!! I'm the same way. Always loved the leaves and love late season games where the studs have their helmets are half filled. Troy had both sides filled by the game.

I really hope that if they do any type of alternate unis, that they are one of the cool throwback types and nothing "flashy". I just think it's a bad idea for a program like tOSU. I really hope that Tress has the final say in the design. I would expect that he would keep Nike under control.

What's next, playing Thursday nights.

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Mr_Burns;1583359; said:
I can appreciate the nostalgia that you undoubtedly feel for that time period. Along those lines, the current helmets are all I've ever known, and I think they are a thing of beauty. They are the one part of the uniform that I never want to see changed. I like seeing photos of the great players and knowing what time of the season the picture was taken just by how many buckeye leaves are on their helmets. Growing up, my brothers and I thought it was such a noteworthy achievement (worth announcing to the rest of the room) when a player's buckeye leaves filled one side of the helmet and began on the other side.

I agree. Don't fuck with the Buckeye leaves. No black jerseys/unis, either.

If we simply have to do something (all about the Benjamins) I hope it sticks solely with scarlet & gray and doesn't involve curved stripes. :shake:
 
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Woody1968;1583363; said:
Watch out for the 66 red helmet special. I just hope they don't ever go back to the wide red stripe/padding helmet.

I took Woody's course in January of 67. Ernie Biggs was brought in to talk about training and equipment and Woody got wound up about the helmet. The thick red stripe was a high density foam rubber which he felt sure made it safer than the fish bowl, web suspension helmet Riddel was making and worn by most teams. The helmet was molded in such a way that it looked like the old leather helmets of the thirties and early forties.

He followed up with the comment that their studies indicated it was safer for the guy taking the hit, i.e. the guy on the other team. In effect the padded helmet was making things safer for the opponent while not really changing the safety of his (Hayes') athletes.

Riddel eventually came out with a fish bowl helmet with extra padding on the outside, but able to be painted and striped like their normal helmet. I'm trying to remember the name, Jim Tryer (?) All American and later all pro with the Chiefs, took that helmet with him to the NFL.

It has subsequently been phased out.

Of interest to me is that two of my fraternity brothers, Don Unverferth and Jim Baas, played for OSU in the padded helmet era and both died of brain cancer, Don in his late 30's and Jim in his 40's. It may simply be coincidence, but I often wonder if those helmets contributed to such a high rate of brain cancer among 100 healthy athletes.
 
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cincibuck;1583465; said:
Some one posted on the USC - Oregon thread that Oregon had over 800 versions to draw on... 800 and not a one of them that wasn't ugly.

Their best uniforms are the throwbacks they wore against Cal. They never should have become Nike's house of experiments in the 1990s. Well, they did get a lot of money, so I guess it isn't all bad for them.
 
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Woody1968;1583589; said:
Their best uniforms are the throwbacks they wore against Cal. They never should have become Nike's house of experiments in the 1990s. Well, they did get a lot of money, so I guess it isn't all bad for them.

:lol:

That's like saying "The whore got H.I.V., but she got paid, so I guess it wasn't all bad for her".

And yes, I'm comparing Oregon's uni's to contracting H.I.V.
 
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cincibuck;1583338; said:
A report from old fartville: I loved the buckeye uniforms from the early to mid fifties, gray pants, gray helmet with a single scarlet stripe. The home jerseys were scarlet with the same gray/black/white stripes on the sleeves that were on the pre-Rutgers/Cincinnati jerseys of 07 to now, matched up with knee sox that followed the same color/striping. The away jerseys were white, scarlet numbers and gray/scarlet/black stripes that ran from the neck to the shoulder, like epaulets.

Then they went to the old style/new helmets with the huge red section and Penn State type jerseys with minimal striping. UGH.

The 67 - 69 unis seem to me to be an homage to the uniforms worn in the glory days of Hayes teams 53 - 58, the years when the Buckeyes became a perennial challenger for the National Championship as well as the Big 10, the only real difference being the move to the silver helmet and the addition of the buckeye leaves.

The current uniform offers pink/gray pants and red and black jerseys. It gets even worse in cold weather when they wear white "long johns" in lieu of knee sox.

I think it worth noting that the last NC was won with scarlet and GRAY stripes on the Jerseys and I wouldn't object to going back to a gray helmet with a scarlet stripe ala alabama/penn state.

Snort, grumble, fart, scratch, cough, mumble, mumble...

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Muck;1583617; said:
Great pics, but I'm here to certify that the white helmet was gone by 53. from 53 to 58 or 59 the helmet was a dove gray with a scarlet stripe. They went to a blocky looking helmet in 58 or 59 - The Tom Matte, Bob Ferguson years and stuck with that helmet until 64 or 65 when they introduced both the older style and the new Riddle with the same foam pad and wide stripe, then went to a gray helmet with the stripes they still use today in 68. The silver came about over a period of two or three years with some helmets still in gray and some in silver.
 

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lvbuckeye;1582965; said:
is it just me, or has the run of high profile losses coincided perfectly with the adoption of Wisconsin's jerseys?

GIVE US THE 90's JERSEYS BACK.

... and Michigan's collapse has coincided with the switch to Adidas?

I will agree with Forde on one thing: I thought North Carolina's all navy blue unis looked sweet too.
 
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