Our informal tour of Division III schools takes us to Amherst, where the Lord Jeffs (oh, wait, can't call them that anymore) displayed an amazing run of uniform consistency that blows away the likes of even Delaware and Yale.
The basic template -- white helmets, purple shirt with white stripes and white pants -- was used from the 1930s until 1993, when most of the stripes were eliminated and an old-english "A" was placed on the helmet. (For me, nothing says "elite private institution" like the color purple and old-English lettering.)
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| The Amherst players are all smiles during an undefeated season. These pic are all from the '85 Amherst College Olio yearbook. |
Anyway, this uniform rules, a Princeton that went through the wrong batch of laundry. The looks is such a hardcore throwback that the numbers on the jersey front use that short, wide font that went out with the 60s. Several of the sleeves also remained pretty long.
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| The '84 team picture. |
The folks at Gameface have tons of Amherst pictures you can find here. I chose 1984 because the site had images of home and road uniforms, but this image could really represent the whole decade. Also, the No-Longer-Jeffs went undefeated that season.
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| The '84 Jeffs in action. |
Up next: Well, if we're going to do Amherst, then we should do its arch-rival in Wayoutwest, Mass. ...
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| I wonder what's the story behind this picture? Are they angry at the Lord Jeffs' name? Or are they angry that Amherst is dropping the name? Or maybe they see a purple cow on the horizon ... |
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