The Rebels will sport a slightly tweaked helmet design for 2012. A little darker silver, grey facemasks, a white UNLV with a red outline, and a large stripe down the center.
Front view, showing the wide stripe
It has been reported that UNLV helmets featured a center stripe from 1968 through 1988, but it has been absent since then and at the time, that it was a Scarlet stripe with a white outline. We have found this to be untrue.
New helmet 2012 back with stripe and uniform number
One of UNLV football’s favorite sons, Randall Cunningham played for them from 1982-1984 and as you can see below, his helmet had a white stripe, bracketed by red, just like the new helmet.
Note the more metallic silver, and the Rebels words on the side
Another issue with that above statement, is that in 2008, the team had a single black stripe down the center.
2008 showed single black stripes on the helmets.
In any case, we believe the stripes and re-coloring look nice. Here is how they looked last year.
This is the design from 2011, you can see the lack of a stripe
Do you like the new look? Does it make it more legible? Or is this just a small tweak for a small team, and not something you are interested in?
JR Francis is an actor, writer, director, graphic designer, UX guru, father, comedian, and craft beer snob. You can reach him at jrfrancis@sportslogos.net or on Twitter @JRFrancisSLN *One of several full-time uniform reporters this site has including its founder, Chris Creamer, who started his site in 1997
BringItBack
Monday, July 16, 2012 at 19:04Looks nice and clean, reminds me a lot of the "white gold" helmets of the 1962-63 S.F. 49ers.
DJ
Monday, July 16, 2012 at 19:50Looks more like gray than silver.
BigBlue
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 02:21Moving away from black would be a welcome change. There is so much BFBS in the NCAA nowadays. Like BringItBack said, maybe go in a 49ers direction and go with some old school, fauxback uni's. Can't say that would look bad with the red, silver and white.
Adam
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 10:25I love the new look, the jersey is still lacking, but they're going in the right direction. A Nebraska-esque plain red jersey, with white letters/numbers and maybe some gray trim, and UNLV quickly becomes one of the best dressed teams
ingmar66
Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 12:16Excellent helmet, this new one. Never ever change it from now on.
joe
Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 18:39unlv sucks at football. They should just quit playing, it's pathetic. And sam boyd stadium is a tolet bowl. If ever there was a stadium that could best be described as an armpit, this is the place. rebels blow
Joes Daddy
Saturday, August 11, 2012 at 01:16Hey joe why don't u stfu. U prolly never played football or any sport for that matter and your probably some 45 year old unemployed loser who is single and has no kids. U really need to stop acting like a prick
Will
Friday, September 7, 2012 at 13:30These look nice, an improvement. What I think would be really cool though is for UNLV to go to a red helmet. Both UNR and UNLV use silver in their color scheme because of course, Nevada is the Silver State. What I think would be neat is for UNR and UNLV to wear blue and red helmets respectively. Then for their rivalry game, the winner of the previous seasons rivalry contest gets to wear a silver helmet with blue or red trim, respectively. I think battling for the honor to wear the silver and represent the state of Nevada would add a cool touch. Maybe the team that wins the rivalry game could even wear the silver all of the following year, or just have the option to wear it when they want, but the other school is 'banned' (agrees not to wear) from the silver helmet that following year.