Helmet Logo
Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 12:32 pmI know the old story goes that the Ford Mustang is named after the ponies....... but I've always wondered who first used the mustang logo? Did we steal it from Ford or vice versa?
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Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 12:32 pmPosted: Fri May 07, 2004 12:54 pmDon't we have it trademarked (or whatever the term is) with the pony running to the right, and Ford has theirs running to the left?
Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 2:58 pmI'm sure that is the case.... but the design itself is the same, just mirrored. Surely this isn't a coincidence.
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 8:27 pmOn the SMU helmet the pony is always running towards the front. So on one side it is going left and on the other side it is going right.
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 9:22 pmThe logo was traced off of the grill of a Mustang and given to Hayden Fry. He did not use it for a year and then put it on the helmet.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 9:39 amThis left/right business is a myth. I've seen the mustang flipped both ways on SMU and Ford logos.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 12:28 pmTrademarks are industry specific i.e. cadillac cars, cadillac dog food. Once a logo is used or permitted to be used, it has a trademark to it. Thus our Mustang logo on a football helmet may very well not be copied without our consent. But we couldn't put that logo on a car hood.
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 7:06 pmEmeraldCityPony wrote:This left/right business is a myth. I've seen the mustang flipped both ways on SMU and Ford logos.
The Mustang faces forward on each side of the helmets, meaning one runs left to right, the other right to left. I think most university-issued material (brochures, t-shirts, etc.) all have the Mustang facing the same way, but it's clearly recognizable as a symbol of SMU facing in either direction.
Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 6:43 pmI think it might be more appropriate for SMU to have their helmet Mustangs running backwards until we win a game.
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 10:10 amEmeraldCityPony wrote:This left/right business is a myth. I've seen the mustang flipped both ways on SMU and Ford logos.
It always runs forward on the helmet, unless we go ofer September again next fall.
Not sure about who has a trademark, as I've seen it on a Canadian Football League team whose name escapes me right now, and plenty of HS teams. Maybe since its not an exact copy of Ford's trademark everybody else can use it.
Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 12:36 pm