so were getting new uni's for next year....so whats that mean? are they doing a complete redesign?
Iowa State helmets: best and worst
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Would like to see this with a cardinal center stripe or the old white center stripe flanked by cardinal stripes.
Was google searching images of something else and came accross this. I think it's pretty cool but those unfamiliar with our logos may not make sense of it.
I'm very familiar with our logos, and I can barely make sense of it...
...but that's mostly because it's stupid.
I've said this a million times before but figure why not again. Use the old "tornado logo" from the 80's and get rid of the "Iowa State" that was printed above it. Just have the tornado part and leave it at that. You guys can fight about the color scheme, I'm not particular.
Was google searching images of something else and came accross this. I think it's pretty cool but those unfamiliar with our logos may not make sense of it.
I don't like this one. Looks too easy for opposing fan bases to see this image as Cy getting ready to, as McCabe would say, "suck a fat one". No thanks.
I've said this a million times before but figure why not again. Use the old "tornado logo" from the 80's and get rid of the "Iowa State" that was printed above it. Just have the tornado part and leave it at that. You guys can fight about the color scheme, I'm not particular.
Tornado is my favorite logo too. Probably because I was born in 83 and that's the first logo I remember seeing. Though people older than me will point out that logo is associated with dark ISU sport days . . . :twitcy:
I've said this a million times before but figure why not again. Use the old "tornado logo" from the 80's and get rid of the "Iowa State" that was printed above it. Just have the tornado part and leave it at that. You guys can fight about the color scheme, I'm not particular.
EXACTLY my opinion. Would love to see the tornado in red on a yellow helmet with a cardinal center stripe (or double stripe like the Jets or Wisconsin). We could move the I-state logo to a patch on the jersey like Nebraska does.
I'm not a fan of wearing gold on the football uniforms either. Cardinal and white trim. We could use yellow trim, like the basketball team does, just not yellow helmets.
I'll say it again, I think our current logo on a gun-metal gray helmet would look awesome as an alternate.
I much prefer our away uniforms to our home uniforms. Wouldn't mind seeing us go back to the gold helmet again.
Yeah, it was Clay Stapleton's boys who wore old gold, right? I watched the ISU-Iowa freshman football games of 1967 and 1968 and recall that ISU wore old gold pants and white jerseys (both games were in Iowa City) with Cardinal numerals and accents. Looked good (even to me, although I was a hawgeye fan at the time).
I do have some 8mm film I shot of the 1967 ISU-ui game; I was a kid at the time, an excuse that I use to explain the gawd-awful camerawork. The ui frosh included Larry Lawrence (who died December 2012, age 63) at QB and Denny Green (NFL coach) at RB, and the ISU QB was Waterloo East High grad Obert Tisdale (retired as a USAF colonel, iirc).
Iowa won the '67 contest 41-6, ISU the '68 game 23-12. The latter outcome was thought to be a major upset by some observers. The '67 Iowa frosh were rated as high as the second-best recruiting class in the country (behind Ohio State's group; OSU won a national title with these guys as sophomores, Rex Kern and bunch; OSU beat Iowa in Iowa City 33-27 that season).
The 1968 ui frosh team was a highly regarded group, too, so ISU's victory raised eyebrows.
So, is it the case that ISU first donned yellow in place of old gold in 1969, Johnny Majors' rookie season as Cyclones head coach?
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What you say here is pretty consistent with what my father recalls. He has told me before that the colors switched sometime in the late 60's.
