Notre Dame will unveil new gold helmets for Southern Cal night game

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It also will be sporting a new gold helmet.</p><p><a href="http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/campus-rivalry/2011/10/20/helmetx-large.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/campus-rivalry/2011/10/20/helmetx-inset-community.jpg" alt="" width="230" height="206" cutline="Notre Dame will unveil its new gold helmets when the Irish face Southern Cal on Saturday night." credit="By Matt Cashore, Notre Dame" keywords=" " style="margin-left: 5px; float: right" /></a>The Irish will debut a new headgear that more closely resembles the color of the Golden Dome that overlooks the campus and football stadium.</p><p>Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly and athletics director Jack Swarbrick were unhappy that recent helmets could not replicate the shade of gold and made multiple attempts last season to produce the right color.</p><p>The school will continue to have 23.9 karat gold flakes in the helmet, but the tradition of students painting the helmets before the game is going away because it is too detailed to be replicated by the school.</p><p>"We've been frustrated with the helmet," Kelly said. "It just has never gotten to the right color. We want it to be the Golden Dome. I mean, that's the representation for me. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but that's the gold that we were looking for. Still has the flake, the gold flake in it. 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