Fred Gehrke
Born April 24, 1918, was legendary football player and executive, Fred Gehrke. Fred was on the Cleveland Rams team that won the NFL CHampionship in 1945. Fred Gehrke went to college and suited up for the Utah Utes and also went on and played in the NFL for the Cleveland / Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Cardinals from 1940 through 1950. To boost team morale, Gehrke designed and painted the Los Angeles Rams logo in 1948, which was the first painted on the helmets of an NFL team.
The Washington Huskies Mid-1930s Helmet Logo
We’ve been on a helmet logo theme lately since ideas for logo-themed research keep surfacing. There are a few more in the pipeline, but today’s focus is on the Washington Huskies and their being the second identified team to paint a logo on their helmets. — www.footballarchaeology.com
Timothy Brown at Football Archaeology shared this interesting post on a rear helmet logo from he 1930s, Washington Huskies.
First NFL Helmet Logo
Team branding is a big part of the NFL’s success. But did you know it all started with the L.A. Rams? — abc7.com
The first-ever NFL helmet with a logo was hand-painted by the Rams' Fred Gehrke in 1947. This is a great story with video from ABC affiliate channel 7.
Design Hero Fred Gehrke
A fun look back at the legendary innovation on helmets and its innovator
Front and Back Helmet Logos
Logos on the side of helmets have been the norm since Fred Gehrke painted horns on the Los Angeles Rams’ helmets in 1948, but logos on the front and back of helmets preceded the Rams’ horns. The University of Chicago had their Wishbone C on the back of their helmets in 1921 and 1922 — www.footballarchaeology.com
Football Archaeology takes a look back at the history of the helmet logo in some unique places, uncommon to the conventional ones we are used to.
Adopting Helmet Logos By Rose Bowl Teams
Following on yesterday’s theme concerning helmet logos, I wanted to look at the time between the 1948 Los Angeles Rams busting out their horns and college teams adding helmet logos. To really determine the adoption curve, I’d have to find images for hundreds of college teams over a few decades, but even I wouldn’t do that, so I took a far narrower path, looking only at the Rose Bowl teams starting in 1949. — www.footballarchaeology.com
A brilliant look at an era where logos were on the front and backs of football helmets by Football Archaeology
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