The Auburn Uniform Database is dedicated to documenting all Auburn athletic uniforms. This entry is part four of a series detailing the history of Auburn’s football uniforms. Be sure to check the previous entries, starting from the beginning or checking last week’s article.

1960

With a new decade upon them, Auburn made an interesting change to the uniforms. The Northwestern stripes that had donned the helmets since 1956 were removed. Auburn replaced them with a single orange stripe.

Another odd move was made to the white jerseys, as the stripes were switched. Instead of wearing orange/blue/orange stripes, the sleeve stripes were blue/orange/blue.

1961

The Northwestern stripes returned to their rightful location on the helmets. Auburn also added a new set of blue tops with the traditional striping pattern. The whites also saw the stripes swap again. The blue and white jerseys now match for the first time since 1955.

1962

Rarity: Auburn wore white at home many times throughout the 1960s (image via 1963 Glomerata)

Auburn continued along into the 1962 season making zero changes to the uniforms.

1963

Through this series, Auburn had only gone a single season at a time making no changes to the uniforms. Not this decade. For the second year in a row, the Tigers didn’t change anything.

1964

It’s a three-peat for Auburn, again not tweaking the uniforms.

At some point during the season, probably during camp, a photograph of All-American Tucker Frederickson was snapped inside the Auburn locker room. There isn’t much uniform-worthy in the photo until your eyes drift to the back right corner of the shot. It appears to show a football helmet with a logo differing from the AU that would debut a few years later. The mystery was featured on this site in 2017 and is worth your time to read.

1965

Check out that mask on #61! (image via 1966 Glomerata)

Facemasks become much more common, as well as the addition of the 2-bar mask. No other changes were made to the uniforms for the fourth straight year.

1966

The 1966 season saw many changes. AU logos are added to the helmets for the first time, resembling the modern helmet design. Player numbers are added to the back of the helmet. Full blue/orange/blue stripes are added to the pants, albeit a little skinny, mimicking the 1952 design.

A new white jersey was worn for the majority of the season that didn’t have stripes on the sleeves. TV numbers replaced the stripes, and the sleeve cuffs were also colored blue. Oddly enough, they didn’t last the entire season, as the striped white jerseys returned for the Iron Bowl.

1967

For the 1967 season, Auburn made the pants stripes a little thicker. TV numbers were added to the shoulders on both white and blue jerseys.

The Iron Bowl this season was played in a muddy Legion Field, creating an amazing mud game for the ages..

1968

Minor change for the Tigers, as the player numbers are removed from back of the helmets.

1969

Auburn transitioned a new template for the jerseys, in which the majority of the body is nothing but mesh. The shoulder yoke and stripes were on a solid piece of material, while the shoulder pads were more than plenty visible underneath the mesh.

The new mesh jerseys were meant to be more breathable and cooling for the players.

The 1960s were a very tame era for Auburn football uniforms. The Tigers found an aesthetic and stuck to it. Under Shug, they tested out a few different things, like numbers on helmets – side and back – and stripeless white tops.

It was during this time that Auburn established a look that would carry the Tigers over the next 60 years to present day.

This series continues on next week with Auburn football through the 1970s, complete with the first Heisman Trophy winner in team history.

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