Throwback Threads: 150 Years of Yale Football

from ESPN – College Football Uniforms

Yale will honor 150 years of football history with its threads this weekend. The jersey design is inspired by the Walter Camp era. According to the school’s website, Camp, an 1880 Yale graduate, was a two-time team captain and the head coach from 1888 to ’92. He is considered the father of American football because of his efforts in “reshaping the doctrines of English rugby into American football.”

The jerseys are the same cream color as Yale’s famous varsity sweaters and feature a faux stitching pattern down the middle. Looking closely, you can see excerpts from Camp’s 1893 book “Book of College Sports” on the numbers. The pants and helmets are in the Bulldogs’ traditional blue color.

The school’s “Y” logo on the helmets has silhouettes of the Heisman trophy within the lettering, a nod to Larry Kelley and Clint Frank, Yale’s two Heisman winners. In addition, the two stripes on the headgear list every football team captain since 1872.