We all know I love stripes. So you can imagine my reaction when I saw this. Those are the Duryea (Pennsylvania) High School Wildcats in the 1950s. Their uniforms were …
Category: High School Sports
Triple A-B-A, Douggie Style
By Phil Hecken, with Doug Keklak It’s been a while since I did a post with UW’s favorite yinzer, Doug Keklak, but Douggie’s back and he’s got a great piece …
High-Cuffery: Not Always Such a Great Idea After All
Yes, the baserunner is wearing one black sock and one gold. And it’s not just him — the school in question is the Carver School of Engineering and Science in …
If You Want It Done Right, Design It Yourself
[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from David Battafarano (that’s him talking to the ump), who recently had an interesting experience designing his team’s uniforms. — PL] By …
Hawkeye Hoops, Hurrah!
When someone sends me a link to a slideshow of old photos, I usually just put it in the Ticker and that’s that. But Cody Dannen recently sent me a …
And Now…The Clarksville Finalists…You Pick The Winner
By Phil Hecken You will all recall that over the past two weekends, I had the pleasure of bringing you the participants in the “Clarksville ‘Design-A-Uniform’ Contest.” All the entries …
The Last Train to Clarksville (Pt. IV)
By Phil Hecken And, finally, today we visit the last round of entries for the “Design-A-Uniform” contest for the Clarksville Wildcats. As with the previous three rounds, we have another …
Design-A-Wildcat Uni, Pt. III
By Phil Hecken Today we begin with Round III of the Clarksville “Design-A-Uniform” Contest, with a plethora of superb entries. If you missed the first two rounds (or just want …
More Uni Design, More Football, and More!
By Phil Hecken Back with round two of the “Design-A-Uniform” contest entries for the Clarksville High School baseball team. If you missed the first batch of entries, you can see …
Devaluing the Design Process, Pt. I (aka “Design-A-Uni”)
By Phil Hecken OK, the long-awaited “Design-A-Uniform” contest entries have finally been all uploaded and flickr’ed (there were approximately 190 individual entries, from close to 40 entrants) that came in. …
Design-A-Uniform Contest
By Phil Hecken You guys will recall several weeks ago I ran a “Design-A-Cap” contest, for Coach Jerome Nemanich and his Sartell Sabres, and the results were outstanding. Reader Marc …
A New Item for the Sock Drawer
Two days ago I Ticker-linked to this photo of a Wisconsin high school football player and asked, “Is this where football sock design is headed?” I got a much more …
Uni Watch Book Club: Sports Memories of Western Pennsylvania
At the recent Uni Watch gathering in Pittsburgh, George Fetkovich was kind enough to give me this book, which has a bunch of great photos. Let’s take a look: • …
Hey Kid, Wanna Wear a Pro Uniform? How About Semi-Pro?
There was some chatter in the comments yesterday about the Pittsburgh Maulers, who played in the USFL back in 1984. By happy coincidence, reader Jeff Warner has an interesting story …
Uni Watch Field Trip: A Visit to the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum
One of the highlights of my recent trip to Pittsburgh was a visit to the Heinz History Center, which includes the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum. I took a lot of …