South Huntington/Walt Whitman High School

This page was last updated on July 5, 2003.

 

Athletic Nickname: Wildcats

School Colors: Maroon and white (Gold is an accent color.)

District Website: http://www.shuntington.k12.ny.us; The school website is at http://www.shuntington.k12.ny.us/schools/wwhs/main.html. 

 

Football Uniform History

 

Late 1940s

I happened to find a South Huntington High School yearbook from the late-1940s at the South Huntington Public Library.  In that yearbook was a team photo of South Huntington’s football team wearing maroon long-sleeved jerseys with small white numbers on the front and contrasting white shoulders.  The pants were probably either solid white, maroon, or army tan.

 

Late 1960s-Early 1970s

• The helmets were white and featured a wide maroon vulcanized strip down the center of the helmet from front to back.
• Maroon home jerseys had white plain block numbers on the front and back and contrasting white upper sleeve inserts containing maroon TV numbers.  The white away jerseys have identical graphics in reverse colors.
• The white pants worn with both jerseys had a single narrow maroon stripe down each side.

 

1973

The helmet is now plain white, but the rest of the uniform is unchanged from 1969.

 

1974-1976

• The white helmet now has a single narrow maroon stripe running from front to back and a three-inch-high player’s number in the Karnak Bold Condensed font on each side.
• Maroon home jerseys and white pants are unchanged from past years.
• The white road jersey, which is now in a nylon mesh fabric, dispenses with the contrasting maroon upper sleeve insert and now has the word “WILDCATS” on the front above the numbers.  The word “WILDCATS” is arranged in a radius arc on many jerseys, but on some it is straight across.  The numbers now have yellow-gold borders.

 

1977

• The white helmet now has two narrower maroon stripes flanking the one-inch wide maroon center stripe.
• The home jerseys are changed to a graphical style identical to that of the 1974 white jerseys, and the numbers on the maroon jerseys are white with yellow-gold borders.
• The white pants are unchanged from what had been worn since at least 1969.

 

1978-1980

• Whitman changes to a maroon helmet with a white Clemson-style paw logo on each side and white-maroon-gold-maroon-white center striping.

 

1981

• A thin white circular outline is placed around the Clemson-style paw logo on the helmet.  Otherwise, the uniform is unchanged from the late-1970s.

 

1983-1998

• From circa 1983 to 1987, the maroon helmet maintains the same striping as in the 1981, but the paw logo is replaced by a white player’s number on each side.  Stripes are gone from the helmet by 1988.
• The new home jerseys have the word “WILDCATS” removed from the front and two narrow white stripes flanking a one-inch wide gold stripe on each sleeve.  These jerseys are in Champion’s “Wolf Pack” design with a double-play mesh yoke running over the top of the shoulders and sleeves from sleeve-end to sleeve-end and a porthole mesh body.  White away jerseys have similar graphics in reverse colors.
• The white pants continue to have just one narrow maroon stripe down each side until the late 1980s, when a butting yellow-gold stripe is placed behind the maroon stripe.  Solid maroon pants began to be worn for away games by the mid-1990s.

 

1999

The 1999 season produces a major design overhaul for Whitman’s football uniform.

• The solid maroon helmet has three-inch high white player’s numbers in the Futura Bold Condensed font on each side.
• Sleeve stripes are gone from the new home and away jerseys.  The maroon home jerseys now have a white paw logo on each sleeve, white full block numbers with deep yellow-gold borders, and deep yellow-gold (perhaps Pantone 125?) V-neck collar and rib-knit cuffs.  The white away jersey has similar graphics in reverse colors.
• Solid maroon pants are usually worn with the new home jerseys, and solid white pants with the away jerseys.

 

 

Whitman Football Helmet History

Years	Decal	Shell	Mask	Striping
Late 1960s-c.1972	None	White	Gray	Wide raised maroon vulcanized strip
1973	None	White	Gray	None
1974-1976	Player’s number in Karnak Bold Condensed font	White	Gray	Maroon (one-inch)
1977		White	Gray	Maroon (1/2-inch)-white space (1/2-inch)-maroon (one-inch)-white space (1/2-inch)-maroon (1/2-inch)
1978-1980	White Clemson-style paw	Maroon	Gray	White (1/2-inch)-thin maroon space-Yellow-Gold (one-inch)-thin maroon space-white (1/2-inch)
1981-?	White Clemson paw inside maroon circle with white outline	Maroon	White	White(1/2-inch)-Yellow-Gold (one-inch)-white (1/2-inch)
?-1983-1987	White player’s number in a block font	Maroon	White	White(1/2-inch)-Yellow-Gold (one-inch)-white (1/2-inch)
1988-1998; 2000-	White player’s number in a block font	Maroon	White	None
1999	White player’s number in Futura Bold Condensed font	Maroon	White	None

 

 

 

 

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