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TCU Football Helmet - A History
TCU's football helmets have a memorable history dating back more than 50 years. They have had some combination of player numbers, photos of a horned frog, along with the letters T-C-U more than the years. They have been white, purple, silver, and sometimes black. The 1960's saw four distinct helmet designs. Considerably of that period, the helmet was either white or purple with all the player's quantity (e.g. 88) on the side in the helmet, either in a sans serif font or perhaps a block font. Throughout 1966, the helmet had a strange-looking horned frog head. The subsequent year, the letters TCU had been on the helmet; it was related for the modern day day Texas A&M logo with a big T and a smaller C and U on either side. Even though this logo was only used for one year, it has a warm spot in the hearts of many alums and sometimes can be seen written on a poster board or appearing on some random webpage. In the 1970's, the letters TCU again appeared on the helmet, inside a stylized serif font with T, C, and U going in a diagonal path down from facemask side to back side.
Perhaps one of the most-loved and famous logos of TCU appeared in 1977. The "Flying T" had a large T racing from front to back. C and U had been underneath. It had an ESPN-logo type feel to it. Like a stencil, the C and U were not fully connected. They had been 3 and 2 unconnected blocks of text. The original Flying T helmet was silver, but by 1980, it was purple and it remained that way until 1991. By 1992, the administration apparently wanted a new look and decided to retire the Flying T; although as recently as 2010, there were Facebook postings asking them to bring it back. In 1992, the helmet remained purple, but went to three equal-sized block letters of TCU. They had an upslope on the T, a level slope around the C, and a downslope on the U. The subsequent year, the helmet was changed from purple to silver and the TCU letters were outlined in white. This design held steady for 2 years before being replaced with a black outline and black facemask. A horned frog was added underneath the letters, the color went back to purple, and this designed remained with some minor tweaking from 1998 to 2010. On some specific games, Nike did a custom helmet of either black or silver with red frogs blood (horned frogs spit blood from their eyes to scare predators) and a frog-like scale. Finally, during the 2011 Rose Bowl game, the frog had a rose through its mouth. (This helmet became legendary using the Horned Frogs shocked the world by beating Wisconsin with an unbelievable team effort led by Andy Dalton and Tank Carder.) The latest helmet marks a return for the TCU lettering with no frog. Seeking at the past few years with so many changes and adjustments, it is unlikely to last without some changes soon.
Copyright Donald Plunkett. See the latest TCU football helmet for yourself at
Copyright Donald Plunkett. See the TCU football helmet for yourself at
TCU's football helmets have a memorable history dating back more than 50 years. They have had some combination of player numbers, photos of a horned frog, along with the letters T-C-U more than the years. They have been white, purple, silver, and sometimes black. The 1960's saw four distinct helmet designs. Considerably of that period, the helmet was either white or purple with all the player's quantity (e.g. 88) on the side in the helmet, either in a sans serif font or perhaps a block font. Throughout 1966, the helmet had a strange-looking horned frog head. The subsequent year, the letters TCU had been on the helmet; it was related for the modern day day Texas A&M logo with a big T and a smaller C and U on either side. Even though this logo was only used for one year, it has a warm spot in the hearts of many alums and sometimes can be seen written on a poster board or appearing on some random webpage. In the 1970's, the letters TCU again appeared on the helmet, inside a stylized serif font with T, C, and U going in a diagonal path down from facemask side to back side.
Perhaps one of the most-loved and famous logos of TCU appeared in 1977. The "Flying T" had a large T racing from front to back. C and U had been underneath. It had an ESPN-logo type feel to it. Like a stencil, the C and U were not fully connected. They had been 3 and 2 unconnected blocks of text. The original Flying T helmet was silver, but by 1980, it was purple and it remained that way until 1991. By 1992, the administration apparently wanted a new look and decided to retire the Flying T; although as recently as 2010, there were Facebook postings asking them to bring it back. In 1992, the helmet remained purple, but went to three equal-sized block letters of TCU. They had an upslope on the T, a level slope around the C, and a downslope on the U. The subsequent year, the helmet was changed from purple to silver and the TCU letters were outlined in white. This design held steady for 2 years before being replaced with a black outline and black facemask. A horned frog was added underneath the letters, the color went back to purple, and this designed remained with some minor tweaking from 1998 to 2010. On some specific games, Nike did a custom helmet of either black or silver with red frogs blood (horned frogs spit blood from their eyes to scare predators) and a frog-like scale. Finally, during the 2011 Rose Bowl game, the frog had a rose through its mouth. (This helmet became legendary using the Horned Frogs shocked the world by beating Wisconsin with an unbelievable team effort led by Andy Dalton and Tank Carder.) The latest helmet marks a return for the TCU lettering with no frog. Seeking at the past few years with so many changes and adjustments, it is unlikely to last without some changes soon.
Copyright Donald Plunkett. See the latest TCU football helmet for yourself at
Copyright Donald Plunkett. See the TCU football helmet for yourself at
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