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Date Posted: 09:47:51 02/24/24 Sat
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Subject: Rochester Institute of Technology (Henrietta, NY) (1978) Defunct

Tom Coughlin took this team from club level to a division III

This video shows the team wore black helmets an orange helmet stripe and a "RiT" logo at some point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yw_-nXktiI&ab_channel=RochesterInstituteofTechnology


For at least the final year the team wore orange helmets, black white black helmet stripes, white facemask, and a "Tigers" logo

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/RIT_yearbook_1978_page_37.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIT_Tigers#/media/File:Football_team_in_color,_RIT_yearbook_1978_page_35.jpg

Photo # 3 -https://www.reddit.com/r/rit/comments/116q6mj/a_random_collection_of_how_rit_used_to_be/

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[> Re: Rochester Institute of Technology (Henrietta, NY) (1978) Defunct -- Pete In Colorado, 21:03:18 02/24/24 Sat (71.211.133.215)

Some more info on R.I.T. Tigers:

From Wikipedia:

"RIT had an early football team that ceased playing circa 1922.
In 1968, a club football team was formed, and in 1971, football became a university-sanctioned sport as the team joined NCAA Division II.
They moved to NCAA Division III in 1973.
In January 1978, after seven seasons,
RIT discontinued its football program on the basis that they would not be able to commit sufficient funding to the team"

From what I gathered from yearbooks:

1968: White. Gray FM
1969: White. Orange-black-orange stripes. Black oval w/ white "100" inside oval. Gray FM
1970: White. Orange-black-orange stripes. Gray FM
1971: Black. Gray FM
1972: Black. White "RIT" logo. Gray FM.
1973: Black. Orange stripe. Gray FM
1974: Black. Orange stripe. Orange numbers. Gray FM.
1975-1976: Orange. Black-white-black stripes. Black Block numbers. Gray FM
1977: Orange. Black-white-black stripes. Black "Tigers" o/l in white. White FM.

Sources:

https://www.rit.edu/alumni/yearbook-archive#1970

https://digitalarchive.rit.edu/xmlui/browse?rpp=20&offset=1348&etal=-1&sort_by=2&type=dateissued&starts_with=1973&order=ASC
(type in year and look for issues of "The Reporter")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIT_Tigers

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[> Re: Rochester Institute of Technology (Henrietta, NY) (1978) Defunct -- charles arey, 14:56:45 02/26/24 Mon (173.189.139.86)

>Tom Coughlin took this team from club level to a
>division III

Thanks. I don't think I had ever looked into this team before - i may have confused it with the Rochester Tech in Minnesota that still has a junior college football team. I believe I can probably add all of the historical helmets for this team to the website.

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