• Sailorgabe
    161
    Oh that would awesome! "Welcome to Mondavi Vineyard Field...." That would cool.
  • Sailorgabe
    161
    I remember my sophmore year they were looking at changing the name. I just think times have changed. Do I think it would be a net positive? yeah, but do I think it will happen? Prob not. I mean go look at Downtown Davis....its a shell of what it used to be...it is very hard to change peoples minds.
  • DavisAggie
    68
    Santa Cruz got some pub from Pulp Fiction
  • fugawe09
    367
    The double-font logo first appeared around 1993. I don’t know the specific history but prior to that time the university seal or the Block CA were used across campus. It timed with 3 things - several other UC campuses were also developing wordmarks, an overall trend among universities to separate academic and athletic wordmarks/logos, and word processing becoming commonplace over typewriters for communication. The font has actually been updated slightly a couple times since.

    The C-Horse logo was designed in 1999 by a committee of about 30 working with a big shot New York branding company. In 1998, Men’s Basketball won the D2 national championship and to the chagrin of many a “Cal-Davis” banner was hoisted by the NCAA. It was determined that the brand was too inconsistent given that even the NCAA got it wrong. Each team was kind of doing its own thing with some sort of CA or script Davis and a mishmash of attempts at mascots and logos, mostly cows and water towers. Gunrock hadn’t been a thing since the 1920s but was resurrected into a costumable mascot as part of the unified brand. There was tension though, as rowing and the Band-uh were committed to the Block CA and baseball I believe to the Lemon CA.

    I don’t know the history of all the logos, but I do know the band wore mostly hand-me-down uniforms from Cal through the 1970s so the “A” was added by hand to the Cal “C”. Wouldn’t surprise me if athletics was also getting some secondhand equipment in the era.
  • Russ Bowlus
    364
    I haven't seen anyone but the former Band-uh! use the monogram CA*--anyone dug through the old athletics/campus archives to check that?

    *It's very easy to make on the field with a fairly small band. ;)
  • Russ Bowlus
    364
    If we're voting, I prefer the script Davis and "lemon" logo on helmets, and the Block CA on water towers and other campus paraphernalia.
  • SochorField
    572
    I feel we have finally gotten the helmets/uniforms correct after a lot years that weren't so great.
    The Russell Athletic years were not great '06-'09. The early Adidas years 2010-2016 were an overall improvement.

    Starting in 2017 we've gotten things straightened out. CA and script Davis on helmets all the way for me.
    I don't see anyone straying from the athletics font, which seems to be unique to Davis, and most people seems to like.

    Gold Davis script helmet, white jerseys, gold pants on the road for me. The team looks lean and fast in that look.

    What should change is the University logo font UCDAVIS.
  • SochorField
    572
    I brought up putting "Aggie Pride" somewhere on the field a few years back, like "Bear Down" at U of A. I always thought that was cool.

    I think our field is the best looking in the conference right now.
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