Any Traditions At Your School For Helmets and Decals?

[hhpatriot04]

At some schools, freshmen do not get to wear decals.

At other schools, moms put the decals on the helmets at a special banquet before the season.

Some schools like Cathedral, Evansville Reitz, Mater Dei and others have no decals.

What special traditions/rituals does your school have regarding helmets and decals?

[MarshallCounty]

ummm, Bremen uses the little b, it started in the 70's designed by assistant Coach Dennis Seneicki who was an art teacher.  Back then Bremen was the little school in the Northern Lakes conference.  It was a badge of honor, a chip on their shoulder. 

[hhpatriot04]

14 minutes ago, MarshallCounty said:

ummm, Bremen uses the little b, it started in the 70's designed by assistant Coach Dennis Seneicki who was an art teacher.  Back then Bremen was the little school in the Northern Lakes conference.  It was a badge of honor, a chip on their shoulder. 

Looks nice! Clean design and great history and story. The decal almost looks like a "6".

[btownqbcoach1]

We do.  

Offensive objectives get stars, defensive get skulls, special teams get tomahawks.. 

[Cloudy14]

Not high school related - but the University of Georgia used to use white bone decals for athletic achievements and black bone decals for academic accomplishments.  I would love to see a team adopt this!

[Bobref]

Back in the old days, Munster used to give out a weekly “Headhunter” award to the defensive player with the most tackles on Friday night. It was a skull & crossbones helmet sticker. Imagine doing that today.

[PLACfan]

2 hours ago, btownqbcoach1 said:

We do.  

Offensive objectives get stars, defensive get skulls, special teams get tomahawks.. 

And this is one of the best looking helmets in Indiana come October/November! 

[First_Backer_Inside]

At Rochester, you earn your stripes by going to team camp in the summer. It is a stripe that goes down the middle of the helmet. Then during the first two weeks of practice, players slowly earn their English R on the right side of the helmet and their number on the left as they stand out and work hard in practice. The coaches put them on for the players. During the season we give out little white football helmet decals for awards during the week for things such as TD's scored or blocked for, TFL, INT, etc. We even started giving awards out for guys that sprint down the field to celebrate in the end zone with the guy that scored. 

[hhpatriot04]

16 minutes ago, PLACfan said:

And this is one of the best looking helmets in Indiana come October/November! 

Was that sarcasm? I'm not a fan of the clutter. I much prefer this:

[btownqbcoach1]

14 minutes ago, hhpatriot04 said:

Was that sarcasm? I'm not a fan of the clutter. I much prefer this:

Helllllllll nooooo

 

[hhpatriot04]

Thanks. I didn't realize you had red stripe(s)? on the helmet?

White-black-thick red-black-white?

[btownqbcoach1]

7 minutes ago, hhpatriot04 said:

Thanks. I didn't realize you had red stripe(s)? on the helmet?

White-black-thick red-black-white?

yes and it's a total b**** to get right lolol 

[hhpatriot04]

12 minutes ago, btownqbcoach1 said:

yes and it's a total b**** to get right lolol 

We had the exact same scheme at Heritage Hills, but with blue flanked by white with red space in-between.

Getting those straight and the Patriot man logo "perpendicular to the earhole" but it couldn't be too high or too low was a SOB.

Players definitely ran if they had to go ask for another decal. Most would try to peel them off then have them peel off halfway through the season.

Fresh decals were only given out before state.

[Justasportsfan]

Slightly off subject, why don’t alumni clubs auction off their clubs helmets? Copyright issues?

[hhpatriot04]

6 hours ago, btownqbcoach1 said:

yes and it's a total b**** to get right lolol 

Fixed. I think. Let me know if anything looks off.

[PLACfan]

On 9/1/2026 at 2:12 PM, hhpatriot04 said:

Was that sarcasm? I'm not a fan of the clutter. I much prefer this:

No sarcasm at all.  I love the award decals. 

[btownqbcoach1]

On 9/1/2026 at 8:56 PM, hhpatriot04 said:

Fixed. I think. Let me know if anything looks off.

yes good to go

[Sparty]

On 9/1/2026 at 12:41 PM, Cloudy14 said:

Not high school related - but the University of Georgia used to use white bone decals for athletic achievements and black bone decals for academic accomplishments.  I would love to see a team adopt this!

What about safe driving accomplishments?