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Yeah that helmet and uniform combo is wonderful.
The white pants always looked out of place to me without white accents on the helmet and the white numbers. All the cardinal uniform pieces seem to be in place.
Stripes on the pants would be nice, but the new helmet is a fantastic upgrade. Hated the black chinstraps.
Whatever the boys want, I'm ok with.
But, until we adopt Cardinal and Gold true ISU colors rather than using Red and Yellow, I'll forever be disappointed.
But, until we adopt Cardinal and Gold true ISU colors rather than using Red and Yellow, I'll forever be disappointed.
1967 and 1968, I have a distinct and powerful memory of the ISU freshmen traveling to Iowa City to play the UI frosh. I think - but I'm not sure - these two games were the only two meetings of the freshman teams of the two universities.
At the time I was a complete UI fan, beyond redemption. Later, I found the light, thank the gods.
I have this memory, though, watching ISU's frosh (UI won in 1967, ISU won the 1968 game). I recall thinking the Old Gold pants and deep Cardinal stripes and numbers were absolutely cool, better than the UI's black and yellow. Distinct memory that I have to this day.
I have 8mm color film of the 1967 game somewhere. Just now, though, searched for Clay Stapleton photos but did not find photos of his unis. Geesh.
Yep. Let me see if I recall the story correctly.
Iowa State's Clay Stapleton team played in the Bay area, what? 1959 maybe vs Cal.
49ers people were at the game and fell for Stapleton's (old) Gold and (dark) Cardinal colors and adapted them to the 49ers.
Jack Trice played before the development of color film. Do we know what colors his teams' wore? I'll bet there are some people here who can clarify these questions.
Kagavi has a lot of great work on Jack Trice including the color of the jersey! Highly recommend checking out his stuff.
https://www.kagavi.com/accurate-jack-trice-throwbacks/
Edit to add the longer story of the jersey that includes photos of the back and more details:
https://www.kagavi.com/jack-trices-lost-jersey/
Kagavi did a great job creating a Trice throwback uniform. Two things:
1 - The gray throws me for a loop, imho does not go with gold.
2 - The brown helmet, is that a color to represent leather helmets?
1 - The gray throws me for a loop, imho does not go with gold.
2 - The brown helmet, is that a color to represent leather helmets?
