During its 67-year-existence on the gridiron, Northeastern could never settle on a home jersey color. Some years, the Huskies wore black shirts; in others, they did battle in red. Well, in the 1960s the answer was "none of the above," as they exclusively wore white home and road.
It sounds simple, but the Huskies often wore more than one jersey style, plus they made subtle changes on a year-to-year basis. Stripes on the shoulders one year, on the sleeves another, forget stripes; how about numbers? And what color should those numbers be?
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| Northeastern takes on UNH at home in 1963. Those houses in the background tell you it's definitely Parsons Field. |
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| Northeastern's other white jersey in '63 had shoulders on the sleeves. Notice the shorter sleeves; perhaps this was a warm-weather shirt? I think the Cauldron ran this pic three straight years. |
What made this a challenge to research was the tendency of the school yearbook (the Cauldron) to recycle photos in the mid-60s. Some photos ran two or even three straight years. Perhaps the folks at the Cauldron figured no one would know the difference?
Nineteen sixty-eight was a transitional year for Northeastern; it was the last year of white-at-home, but it was the first year of the awesome "NU" helmet logo, which was used for the next 10 years.
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| More from '63. |
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| Northeastern facing Colby (I think) in '64. By this time, numbers were on the helmets. |
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