OHL History

Here at OHL History, as you can probably tell by now we’re a huge fan of different archival projects based on our favourite league. With that today we’d like to introduce the OHL Jersey Project. Our goal with this project is to keep a catalogue of all jerseys that have been worn by OHL teams over the years, such as primary jerseys, alternate jerseys, as well as one off specialty jerseys (as long as it’s been worn in an official game and not just for warm-ups, we’ll count it here).

Currently we’re in the process of creating lists for all current teams, as well as some more recent defunct teams, to track which jerseys they have worn over the years. So far, primary jerseys are pretty straightforward. The alternates aren’t too tricky outside of trying to determine the end date for some of them. The specialty jerseys are a lot trickier to track, especially as mentions and photos of some of the earlier jerseys become lost media (as some OHL teams were wearing specialty jerseys as far back as the late 2000’s), so we may not have them all listed at first.

Our plan with this project over the next couple of months is to post the lists that we have with the jerseys that we can find as we go through the league team-by-team, hoping that some fans online can help us find any missing jerseys or errors with our dates. Eventually we’d like to have every team tracked and posted somewhere online. The way that will be done is to be determined at a later date.

The first team list will be posted on our Twitter page next week, with more being released as we keep digging throughout the league.