They may have. As I said, they became available in 1960. I (and CPB, I'm sure) noticed the Hogs' helmets because they were close to ours in color...IIRC, when Coach Bryant introduced the crimson helmets LSU and Ole Miss had colored helmets. UGA had solid silver and Vandy's were solid gold. All the other conference team's helmets were white. The use of the numbers on the Alabama helmets and jersey sleeves at first had to do with identification of players when watching game film.