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The UGA "G" logo
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:42 am
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:42 am
Serious question. Who was the first to create it? Obviously, Georgia, Green Bay, and Grambling are all very similar. I always liked it because it sort of resembles a football with the oval shape and the horizontal line representing the laces. Someone was original and two of you are clearly imitators though. Not that there's anything wrong with copying such a cool logo given all 3 of you are in different levels of play. I imagine there's probably countless high schools that use it too. Does anyone know the history?
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Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:43 am to EasterEgg
It might be a copycat logo but it's super cool IMO
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:44 am to EasterEgg
I thought GB got it from Georiga.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:45 am to EasterEgg
Packers equipment manager came up with it under Lombardi. Dooley liked it and copied it
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:46 am to EasterEgg
Green Bay. I believe both UGA and Grambling had to secure rights from GB before using it.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:46 am to EasterEgg
Don't forget the Gulfport Admirals
This post was edited on 12/5/19 at 8:58 am
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:46 am to EasterEgg
Dooley copied it from Green Bay. The AD called Green Bay and asked to use it.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:46 am to EasterEgg
I believe the story was posted earlier this week but the basic gist is that the Packers had the logo first, them Georgia adopted their version of the logo, which looks identical to me but sharper eyes than mine claim that UGA's version has slightly different dimensions. Anyway, UGA asked permission from Green Bay to use the logo, which Green Bay granted. I believe Gambling State did essentially the same thing.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:48 am to EasterEgg
From 11 Alive news story.
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A Packers team equipment manager under legendary coach Vince Lombardi came up with the team's helmet logo in 1961. He designed the shape of the logo to represent a football and the G to mean Green Bay.
A couple years later in Athens, Georgia, Vince Dooley was redesigning the team's uniforms, including changing the helmets from silver to red, according to the school. His idea was to have a black G on a white background on the helmet. John Donaldson, a newly hired backfield coach, volunteered his wife, Anne, to help with the redesign. Anne had a degree in commercial art from the university, and created the G logo as we know it today, matching Dooley's "forward looking" vision he had for the G.
While the Georgia's G dimensions and colors were different, the university still sought approval from Green Bay to use the logo. The Packers granted it. A year later, Grambling State also designed a G logo for its helmet, and the Packers also granted the school permission.
Georgia's G designed in 1963 is slightly slimmer compared to the Packers' G. It has remained the same since, while Green Bay's logo was slightly altered to have a gold border in 1980.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:49 am to EasterEgg
Loys of high schools also use the same G
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:50 am to EasterEgg
Does this kind of thing keep you up at night? A “G”, or any other letter with an oval around it is not that uncommon.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:51 am to EasterEgg
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:53 am to EasterEgg
Where did uga adopt the bulldog mascot? Originally they were the goats I thought.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 9:20 am to EasterEgg
I've always found it weird that a school as big as Georgia wouldnt want their own main logo/brand.
Kind of a high school move to just use a pro football logo you like.
If LSU just used the bengals logo id hate it.
Kind of a high school move to just use a pro football logo you like.
If LSU just used the bengals logo id hate it.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 9:22 am to EasterEgg
Based on the responses in this thread, I guess I'm in the minority thinking it's the most bland, generic, boring logo in the SEC - maybe in all of college football.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 9:30 am to EasterEgg
Coach Dooley's first year at Georgia was 1964 and that was the first year he used the Packer-like G. I see where some say the Packers started using the logo in 1961, I would have thought they used it earlier than that. I don't know when Grambling started using it.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 9:38 am to EasterEgg
My high school used to use the Michigan winged-T helmets except the base was red and the wing T was white. Then we had the original Falcons logo helmets with the base red and the falcon sky blue. Then they cracked down on HS's using trademarked logos I believe and they went with something really lame which was just part of the school's name written across the helmet in some font.
This post was edited on 12/5/19 at 9:39 am
Posted on 12/5/19 at 9:59 am to EasterEgg
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I am not aware of Georgia having used any helmet logo other than the traditional oval "G", and the earlier block "G" that was used during the 1962 season, during the period covered by this site (1960 to present). I believe this is one of the few teams for which the set of historical helmets represented at this site is complete.
*1 The red "G" logo was not used during all games in 1962. It is visible in photographs from games against Florida State and an unknown team in plain white helmets, but is not seen in photos from the Clemson and Florida games.
*2 This helmet design was apparently used by Georgia only during its appearance in the 1991 Independence Bowl against Arkansas.
*3 Black helmets were worn during the 2009 game against Florida played in Jacksonville, FL.
*4 The white stripe on the "2001 - present" helmet is slightly wider than that used in 1995 and earlier; I did not think the difference was great enough to warrant a seperate helmet image here.
helmet project
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:31 am to EasterEgg
I think UGA should break out the silver throwback helmets, although I suppose they would look very similar to tOSU. Maybe throw the G logo on there (even though not historically accurate) to differentiate
Posted on 12/5/19 at 12:37 pm to EasterEgg
I have absolutely no idea, to be honest.
I've ehard people claim Green Bay did, and I have heard that the basic shape was GB's, but Georgia added something to it. (What, I don't know, either.) I'm a plethora of information, aren't I?
I think Griffin High School in Georgia uses the GB logo verbatim.
Griffin has had tons of NFL players go through their school including:
Willie Gault
Alton Montgomery
Jesse Tuggle
Jeff Jackson
Chris Clemons
Ben Talley
Randy Baldwin
Freddie Gilbert
and 5-6 others.
I've ehard people claim Green Bay did, and I have heard that the basic shape was GB's, but Georgia added something to it. (What, I don't know, either.) I'm a plethora of information, aren't I?
I think Griffin High School in Georgia uses the GB logo verbatim.
Griffin has had tons of NFL players go through their school including:
Willie Gault
Alton Montgomery
Jesse Tuggle
Jeff Jackson
Chris Clemons
Ben Talley
Randy Baldwin
Freddie Gilbert
and 5-6 others.
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