THE HELMET PROJECT
Take a trip down memory lane as we display various helmet designs worn by football teams from our region over the years. Some are obvious, some not as easy. See how many you can name and then click on the link at bottom to see how many you recall. All helmet designs and information courtesy The Helmet Project. CLICK HERE to test how many helmets you can name.

Deer Park player Chad Littlejohn, third from right, and Deer coach Chris Massey, right, accept the Sterling Bank Sportsmanship Trophy, presented by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, on Jan. 23. TD Club president Chad Clay, left, looks on with Houston FCA head Wade Hopkins and Sterling Bank sponsor Pamela Lovett (red coat). Click Here for Event Photos Photo by Max Cottrell

'Fight ‘em until Hell freezes over, and then fight ‘em on the ice.'

TCU’s Dutch Meyer

'Three things happen when you pass, and two of them are bad.'

Texas’ Darrell Royal

'I believe.'

Baylor’s Grant Teaff

'Never been licked.'

Movie about Texas A&M and its Corps of Cadets

'I didn’t think anything of it at first. Then I thought to myself, ‘My God, he’s coming out here to hit me.’'

Rice’s Dick Maegle before Alabama’s Tommy Lewis came off the bench to tackle him in the 1954 Cotton Bowl.

'He could take his’n and beat yours’n, and then he could take yours’n and beat his’n.' Former Oilers head coach Bum Phillips on Don Shula.

If these phrases get you thinking about great football moments you have experienced, then maybe the

Touchdown Club of Houston

is for you.

TheTD Club assists area high schools through two community service projects. The Club has awarded more than $140,000 in scholarships to more than 175 high schoolers in Greater Houston in the past nine years, and have given out about $120,000 in weights and weight equipment to 24 Greater Houston high schools in the past six years. The high schools receiving weights are Booker T. Washington, Forest Brook, Reagan, Smiley and Houston Sterling in 2002; Kashmere, Madison, Scarborough, Wheatley and Worthing in 2003; Milby, Northbrook and Westbury in 2004; Furr, Sharpstown and Houston Austin in 2005; Willowridge, Jones, Sam Houston, Aldine and Yates in 2006; and Eisenhower, Houston Lamar, Pasadena and Scarborough in 2007.

If you become a member of the TD Club, part of your dues will go to the National Football Foundation's Play It Smart Program (www.playitsmart.org). Play It Smart puts academic counselors on high school campuses that are considered at-risk. Nationally, the program has allowed schools that had below a 30 percent graduation rate jump to a 90 percent graduation rate. And of those 90 percent who graduated high school, 80 percent enrolled in college.

NEXT TD CLUB EVENT

Texas Southern-PVAMU Luncheon, presented by Frenchy's Chicken, A-Rocket Moving and Storage, and Dixie Hardware and Electrical, noon, Wed., Aug. 27, The Power Center, 12401 South Post Oak at South Main.

       Speaking at the annual luncheon to promote the grudge match between the rival schools will be new TSU football coach Johnnie Cole and new TSU athletic director Charles McClelland. Also speaking will be PVAMU football coach Henry Frazier and acting PVAMU athletic director Fred Washington. Former Oilers, Titans and Ravens quarterback Steve McNair is scheduled to speak.

      Cost is $25 per ticket. Tables are $250 (regular table), or $500 (front or second row table). A paper program sponsorship is available for $1,500.

        For tickets or more information, call TD Club executive director Neal Farmer at 713-849-9860, or e-mail houtdclub@comcast.net.