Below are the arms of the San Diego Armada Rugby Football club, of which I have recently become a member. Unfortunately the club doesn’t seem to have a blazon for the arms. Would anyone be willing to venture a guess for one?
Thanks.
Dave
http://www.americanheraldry.org/forums/albumthumbs/1/7b09f769943d363c86cd548c90a1dbcb_1178.jpg?dl=1311621645
Quarterly Gules and Or a cross pattée counterchanged ??
A nice emblazon!!!
—Guy
http://www.americanheraldry.org/forums/albumthumbs/1/7b09f769943d363c86cd548c90a1dbcb_1178.jpg?dl=1311621645
A nice coat of arms. Simple, effective, and easily identifiable
at a distance. My suggestion for a blazon is:
Quarterly Murrey and Or, a cross formy throughout
counterchanged.
Those are some very nice arms!
I agree with Arthur’s blazon - murrey and or - and the cross is throughout.
Although cross pattée and a cross formée are the same thing (as far as I can recall), I might lean towards cross pattée if for no other reason than that term is a cognate of the Spanish term for that cross "la cruz patada" and San Diego has a rather strong history with the Spanish.
Thanks for the information guys.
Dave
Very nice arms—good blend of the traditional the contemporary, somehow.
Arthur Radburn;86352 wrote:
A nice coat of arms. Simple, effective, and easily identifiable
at a distance. My suggestion for a blazon is:
Quarterly Murrey and Or, a cross formy throughout
counterchanged.
It’s one of those pictures that looks different depending on how you look at it. Think of the cross as the background and the "background" as the charges. Then it could be something like "Quarterly or and murrey four demi-footballs issuant from the corners counterchanged."
Jay Bohn;86488 wrote:
It’s one of those pictures that looks different depending on how you look at it. Think of the cross as the background and the "background" as the charges. Then it could be something like "Quarterly or and murrey four demi-footballs issuant from the corners counterchanged."
Well spotted, Jay. I’d missed that.
Jay Bohn;86488 wrote:
It’s one of those pictures that looks different depending on how you look at it. Think of the cross as the background and the "background" as the charges. Then it could be something like "Quarterly or and murrey four demi-footballs issuant from the corners counterchanged."
Yeah, it’s a funny bit of optical illusion. And it probably says something about you depending upon which way you see it. When I first read the blazons including a cross, my first thought was, "What cross? All I see are four footballs." 
It’s certainly better heraldry than my local team’s arms:
That’s funny because when I read the four footballs I was like "huh? where are you getting footballs from?" It’s definitely a nice optical illusion that can be seen in various ways.
The optical dualism is very nice!—but for blazoning purposes, I’d stick to the cross version—then let those who are able, see & enjoy the four footballs as an apt but subtle allusion. Besides, if you say "footballs" there are at least three dissimilar versions ...
Not quite M. C. Escher, but certainly clever, and above all, bold and handsome.
Jeremy Corbally-Hammond;86525 wrote:
It’s certainly better heraldry than my local team’s arms:
That’s not heraldry. It doesn’t make a design heraldic just beacuse it is on a shield.
That could certainly be true - though some people here may disagree - BUT let’s not go down that road again.
With the coat of arms of San Diego’s RFC and the winner of our heraldry design contest in San Fransisco’s Fog RFC there may be a trend here in excellent west coast rugby heraldic design.
http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/uploads/DesignAward/fog_arms1.gif
I was actually thinking of starting a thread on rugby teams arms.
Dave
