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Date Posted: 14:10:37 09/10/20 Thu
Author: No name
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Subject: On a similar note
In reply to: charles arey 's message, "Navy's red football helmets" on 19:48:08 09/08/20 Tue

>This reinforces my hypothesis that there are probably
>many surprising or bizarre helmet designs dating from
>the 1960s that may remain "unknown" unless color
>photographs are eventually located.

I've seen something like that as recently as 1980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBqnTobS1jU

Notice how Cal Poly-SLO's QB and Middle LB Have different helmet designs

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[> Re: Navy's red football helmets -- No name, 18:51:43 09/26/20 Sat (136.37.160.21)

Found this, which might be helpful:

"Believing that Klemick would in fact have difficulty finding his receivers in a veritable sea of gold helmets, all of Navy's potential receivers entered the stadium with brightly painted burnt orange helmets and were called the "Flaming Mamies"."

http://www.helmethut.com/College/Navy/MDUSNA6161.html
https://uni-watch.com/2011/12/10/army-navy-2011/

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[> [> Re: Navy's ̶r̶e̶d̶ orange football helmets -- charles arey, 12:31:53 09/27/20 Sun (98.20.166.164)

>"Believing that Klemick would in fact have difficulty
>finding his receivers in a veritable sea of gold
>helmets, all of Navy's potential receivers entered the
>stadium with brightly painted burnt orange helmets and
>were called the "Flaming Mamies"."

Thanks, I was thinking the story was probably something of that nature.

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>>This reinforces my hypothesis that there are probably >>many surprising or bizarre helmet designs dating from >>the 1960s that may remain "unknown" unless color >>photographs are eventually located. > > >I've seen something like that as recently as 1980 > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBqnTobS1jU > >Notice how Cal Poly-SLO's QB and Middle LB Have >different helmet designs
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