need help on date of Louisville Cardinals football helmet

[JJKANDLAK]

I won this helmet on eBay and wondered if any U of Louisville fans or helmet collectors could help identify the years when the Cardinals used this style of helmet?
Thank you-Jim

[helmets]

Re: need help on date of Louisville Cardinals football helmet

The helmet is a Schutt AiR IV, designed and worn by players 14 years of age and younger. It is not used in High School, College Football, or the NFL.

[JJKANDLAK]

Re: need help on date of Louisville Cardinals football helmet

Thank you!
Jim

[John in KY]

Re: need help on date of Louisville Cardinals football helmet

Also Louisville only wore that NFL Cardinals-style cardinals logo for a season or two in the early 60s on a red helmet. They have worn a few different styles of cardinal head logo since then.

My time at the school corresponded with them adopting the "Cardinal Bird" mascot as the helmet logo. It was a drawing of the full mascot bird in my years at the school (which covered the 1980-1983 seasons); they went to just using the Cardinal Bird's head as the logo for the 1984 season (and adidas reworked the logo around 2001/2002 or so).

[JJKANDLAK]

Re: need help on date of Louisville Cardinals football helmet

Thanks for everyone's help. I had purchased it on eBay recently and haven't received it yet. I reached out to the seller(no response yet) as well as Paypal's resolution department to begin the refund process.

thanks
jim