My Changes to Notre Dame's Football Uniforms

For Notre Dame fans, the sight of watching the Irish take the field at Notre Dame Stadium with their shining gold helmets and navy blue jerseys is an inspiring tradition.   Always rated among the best in college football, the Notre Dame uniform is classic and timeless in its simplicity and beauty.   However, as much as I love the current uniform, I believe there could be some changes that would be tasteful and sharp-looking.   Before I do that, I’d like to provide a brief history of the Notre Dame football uniform:       1920-40   Although photographs are rare and in black and white, the surviving evidence and contemporary accounts demonstrate that Notre Dame’s first uniform was a simple navy blue sweater with a dark yellow interlocking ND logo.   Already by the time of Knute Rockne’s tenure as coach, the official school colors were blue and gold.   Sometime in the early 1920’s, Rockne began using ... (link)