1972 Design Changes

Entering the 3rd year of the NAAF’s partnership with Patterson Athletics, it isn’t a surprise that we aren’t seeing any changes to the uniforms. However, there is a minor addition a team is making this season. The Long Island Raiders’ are adding an Anniversary patch to their home and road uniforms this season. The Patch is to honour the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Hartford Football Club. The Hartford Football Club was founded in 1922. They competed in the New England Football Championship for many years, eventually being named the Hartford Maroons shortly after their founding. They kept the name until 1942 when the team and the NEFC had to be suspended due to WWII. After the war, the team was taken over by Johnathan Sampson, who renamed the team the Hartford Hawks. They would join the NAAF in 1949. Unfortunately, Sampson would eventually pull out leading to the team being purchased by Wayne Tillman, who moved the team to Long Island where they currently reside as the Long Island Raiders. Tillman is grateful for the opportunity that the Hartford franchise and the NAAF have given him to keep his dream and team alive. He has continued to honour the history of the Hartford franchise, with their founding year in the team’s primary logo, and is once again doing so with this patch. 

As for the design of the patch, it is pretty simple but combines a couple of the eras from the team’s history. The patch features the “Hartford” script that was from the Hawks’ logo from their time in the NAAF. The logo is coloured in the team’s original maroon and cream colours from the team’s original look back in 1922.