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Helmet Stickers / Buckeye Leaves (all merged)

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May be old news to the rest of you--just ran across this stuff this morning.

Oh8ch said:
FWIW - Woody started the tradition in 1968 to acknowledge individual accomplishments and motivate individual effort.
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But, was he the first to use them?

Of course, guess who thinks it was their idea.

Reclaiming the History of Helmet Stickers

Schembechler explained that Michigan players would now be placing yellow, football-shaped reward stickers on their helmets after each game.

“Oh, like Woody?” a reporter asked.

“Uh-uh,” Schembechler grinned triumphantly. “Woody got the idea from me.”

Schembechler proceeded to tell the Detroit-area press that he himself had begun passing out such helmet stickers “a few years earlier” at Miami, his previous head-coaching job.
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http://mgoblog.com/content/reclaiming-history-helmet-stickers

Which sounds like Bo's saying it was his idea. But, then, there's this:

In 1965, Miami University in Ohio became the first school to award college football helmet stickers.
The idea originated with assistant coach Jim Young. As a former World War II fighter pilot, Young recalled the practice of putting small enemy flags on his plane every time he shot down a foe. So he convinced the Miami head coach to award tomahawk helmet stickers for extraordinary plays.
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https://sports.stackexchange.com/qu...lmets-of-football-players-in-college-football

However,

An even earlier attribution is given to Gene Stauber, freshman coach at Nebraska (1955–1957) by head coach Pete Elliott.[2] Stauber routinely used stickers throughout his tenure as assistant coach at Illinois (1960–1970), as a 1962 photo of All-American linebacker Dick Butkus indicates.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmet_sticker

Anyway, we all know who wore them better.
 
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LostLassie said:
May be old news to the rest of you--just ran across this stuff this morning.



But, was he the first to use them?

Of course, guess who thinks it was their idea.

Reclaiming the History of Helmet Stickers


http://mgoblog.com/content/reclaiming-history-helmet-stickers

Which sounds like Bo's saying it was his idea. But, then, there's this:



https://sports.stackexchange.com/qu...lmets-of-football-players-in-college-football

However,



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmet_sticker

Anyway, we all know who wore them better.
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Butkus's were definitely black.

1964-1012-Dick-Butkus-SI-cover-006272522.jpg
 
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Random helmet sticker question here; A friend of mine out here in Seattle (a Purdue man) and I are trying to find out what these stickers are on the old Purdue helmets?

Can anyone venture a guess?

Thanks.

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BayBuck said:
Purdue Pete's hammer?
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According to http://giving111.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-are-those-marijuana-leaves-doing.html

The Boilermakers have recently changed their helmet stickers. When they first started awarding them, each sticker was of the train from their logo, but now they are the infamous hammer of mascot, Purdue Pete. I'm not a genius, but I'd have to guess getting hit by a train would probably be more damaging than a whack from a hammer
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