71-72 Wilson Cross-Collar Squared Shoulders Dureen
71-72 Pat Stapleton and Doug Jarrett game worn jerseys
Brand: Wilson
Material: Dureen
Hem: Nothing
Set Tagging: None
Patches: None
Sets: Believed to be one per color.
Material: Dureen
Hem: Nothing
Set Tagging: None
Patches: None
Sets: Believed to be one per color.
- The 71-72 season introduces Wilson as the jersey manufacturer, and with the change, two adjustments were made to the jerseys - collar and cut.
- The "Cross-collar" was introduced at the point there the neck comes to a point. This cross-collar style would be used up until the 76-77 season.
- The cut of the jerseys were also changed. Instead of the traditional rounded shoulders where the shoulder is sewn to the sleeve, this set had a squared shoulder. Bobby Hull and Darryl Maggs started the season wearing the squared-shoulder jerseys, but research found on 2-1-72 in LA, their jerseys were stolen. It seems at this time they switched to a rounded-shoulder jersey. Note that the shoulder tommies were positioned closer to the neck opening on these jerseys due to the shoulder stitching.
- The squared shoulder cut only was worn in this one season.
- The numbers remain single color and the jerseys feature a Wilson tag and a Gunzo's River Forrest tag beneath. The Wilson tags did not have the size listed on them.
- There was no year tagging in the jerseys.
- Bobby Hull actually wore three different styles of jersey during the season. He wore the squared shoulder cross collar style like the rest of the team. At some point he switched to the style the rest of the team would wear in 72-73 - a rounded shoulder jersey with the cross-collar. In the playoffs he wore an older non-cross collar General Dureen.
- Jerseys of this era were often recycled to minor league teams at St Catherine’s, Dallas and Portland. Some of these jerseys surface in the hobby with extreme wear from games and washing, to the point of heavy damage to the crests and discoloring of the numbers and shoulder tommies. Thus, it is possible wear is added to jerseys after the Hawks wore them.
- Additionally, sometimes the team replaced the chain stitched crests with embroidered crests, and changed numbers on the jerseys for training camps. Jerseys were also used as practice jerseys in years following their original usage.
Views of the squared shoulder. Note that it continues the stitch from the front piece of the jersey continuing over the shoulder in a straight line, making the shoulder piece 'squared'. A rounded shoulder example is pictured for comparison. Also note the fading on the black portion of the shoulder tommy and the sleeve number from excessive washings typical of minor league recycling.
Earlier General Dureen V-neck and Wilson Cross-Collar V-neck comparison
Neck tagging examples
Bobby Hull wearing the cross-color squared shoulder style jersey
Bobby Hull wearing the cross-collar jersey with the rounded shoulders.
Photo of Dennis & Bobby Hull in the 72 Playoffs vs the Rangers. Note Dennis has the squared-shoulder cross-color jersey. Bobby is wearing the older General Dureen style jersey with a regular V-neck.
Darryl Maggs on the right in the 72 playoffs vs the Rangers. Note his V-neck jersey compared to the Cross-collar on the left.
2-1-72 article mentioning the stolen jerseys of Hull & Maggs.