1904 CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM (for information on this photo, click on "more history on the team" below, or you can read more on the HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL COLORS page.)
FSU HAS IT'S ROOTS IN GREATNESS
1904 CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM (for information on this photo, click on "more history on the team" below, or you can read more on the HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL COLORS page.)
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At it's birth in 1947 Florida State was not the fashion dog that it is considered today. Every year new recruits say that the helmet and the flashy garnet-and-gold uniforms are among the first factors in attracting them to the program. But such was not always the case. The first uniforms consisted of leather helmets, cheap white pants, and gold jerseys. The only known color pictures of those uniforms is a grainy film clip from the Cigar Bowl on New Years Day 1950. A clip of the event is shown each Sunday during the opening of the Bobby Bowden Show. By looking at the clip you can see the jerseys were a pasty yellow with garnet numbers. Soon after the bowl game those jerseys were delegated to backup or practice uniforms. The leather hemets were also replaced by new fangled hard plastic versions in 1949. In 1953 Coach Tom Nugent made suttle changes. He added a garnet stripe on the helmet, running from the crown to the back, which remained until 1976 when white borders were added. Nugent also changed the shoes. He discarded the black high-tops for more snazzier low-cut white shoes. It was a touch that the actor Burt Reynolds, a highly recruited halfback at the time said was a major factor in his decision to attend FSU. Moss coached a single year at FSU in 1959, and ushered in a trendy pattern of double strips around the armpits, and started the fashion of changing the tints of garnet. Throughout the 60's and early 70's, FSU's "garnet" jerseys were actually a purplish maroon or burgandy. A color I personally prefer to todays sometimes RED. The colors changed hews almost yearly until 1974 when Coach Mudra took over and changed them back to a more true color of garnet. From 1959 through 1977, FSU helmets went through seven different changes. The first in 1959 was simply the players number on the sides. In 1964 the number was replaced with the stamping of the word "State". In 1966 the outline of the state of Florida was used with nothing inside. 1970 saw the ouline of the state replaced with just the lower-case letters "fs" on it's sides. 1972 saw the return of the outline of Florida but this time it contained the word "State" inside it's boarders. 1974 saw the word "State" replaced by the indian logo, that is now on the pants. The next and so far last change came in 1976 when the helmet got it's feather-draped arrow. The jerseys meanwhile stayed garnet until Oct. 13, 1983, when it hosted Cincinnati. The team warmed up in garnet jerseys, but then went to the locker room and returned for the kickoff in gold jerseys. They were a wierd shade of brownish-gold. They had been bought before the season by the Boosters. Unable to talk Bowden into using them in two season-opening victories, the Boosters got their wish after consecutive losses to Tulane, Auburn, and Pittsburgh. Bowden tried the jerseys in the Cincinnati game to try to spark the team. It worked FSU won, but the jerseys never left the shelves again. "I didn't like them" Bowden said. "We looked like a mustard team in them." Actor Burt Reynolds must have seen the game and agreed. He contacted Coach Bowden and asked if he had thought of changing the uniforms. Bowden said he had but the money was not in the budget. Reynolds told the coach to get some of the practice pants that Notre Dame wore, a shiney gold, and to send him the bill. He did. Bowden bought 130 pairs of the pants. They have been supplemented by equally shiny garnet pants bought before the 1993 season. Worn three times and a favorite among the players, the garnet pants parished in a truck fire returning from an away game in North Carolina. They have only recently been replaced. Florida State's win-loss record can be seen in the coaches section under their individual records. |
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