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For colors as an award for sporting achievement, see <a href="/wiki/Sporting_colours" title="Sporting colours">sporting colours</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:UCLA_marching_band_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/UCLA_marching_band_2010.jpg/220px-UCLA_marching_band_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/UCLA_marching_band_2010.jpg/330px-UCLA_marching_band_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/UCLA_marching_band_2010.jpg/440px-UCLA_marching_band_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/UCLA_Bruin_Marching_Band" title="UCLA Bruin Marching Band">UCLA marching band</a> dressed in the school's <a href="/wiki/UCLA_Bruins#Team_colors" title="UCLA Bruins">"True Blue" and gold</a> colors in 2010</figcaption></figure> <p><b>School colors</b>, also known as <b>university colors</b> or <b>college colors</b>, are the <a href="/wiki/Color" title="Color">colors</a> chosen by a school, academy, college, university or institute as part of its <a href="/wiki/Brand" title="Brand">brand</a> identity, used on building signage, web pages, branded apparel, and the uniforms of sports teams. They can promote connection to the school, known as "<a href="/wiki/School_spirit" title="School spirit">school spirit</a>", and help differentiate it from other institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=School_colors&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:U-Store_Princeton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/U-Store_Princeton.jpg/250px-U-Store_Princeton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/U-Store_Princeton.jpg/330px-U-Store_Princeton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/U-Store_Princeton.jpg/500px-U-Store_Princeton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="1617" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a>'s store, featuring the school's orange and black colors</figcaption></figure> <p>The tradition of school colors appears to have started in England in the 1830s. The <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> chose <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Blue_(colour)" title="Cambridge Blue (colour)">Cambridge blue</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Boat_Race" class="mw-redirect" title="Boat Race">Boat Race</a> against the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a> in 1836,<sup id="cite_ref-thefield_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thefield-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Westminster_School" title="Westminster School">Westminster School</a> have used pink as their color since a boat race against <a href="/wiki/Eton_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Eton School">Eton School</a> in 1837,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Durham_University" title="Durham University">Durham University</a> adopted <a href="/wiki/Palatinate_(colour)" title="Palatinate (colour)">palatinate purple</a> for its MA hood some time before that degree was first awarded in 1838.<sup id="cite_ref-Whiting_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whiting-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many US colleges adopted school colors between 1890 and 1910. These were generally chosen to be distinctive, something that grew harder as more colors and color combinations were taken, although many Presbyterian colleges chose to imitate <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a>'s black and orange.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some American schools have adopted one or more of the colors of red, white or blue from the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States" title="Flag of the United States">national flag</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The most popular colors among US colleges ranked in the 2012 Forbes Top 50 or in the 2012–13 NCAA basketball or cross-country rankings were white, blue, red, black, and gold. These same five colors were the most popular five colors among colleges in each of the three rankings individually.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=School_colors&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Sporting_colours" title="Sporting colours">Sporting colours</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nippon_Sport_Science_University_Rugby_Football_Club_Players.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Nippon_Sport_Science_University_Rugby_Football_Club_Players.jpg/220px-Nippon_Sport_Science_University_Rugby_Football_Club_Players.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Nippon_Sport_Science_University_Rugby_Football_Club_Players.jpg/330px-Nippon_Sport_Science_University_Rugby_Football_Club_Players.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Nippon_Sport_Science_University_Rugby_Football_Club_Players.jpg/440px-Nippon_Sport_Science_University_Rugby_Football_Club_Players.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nippon_Sport_Science_University" title="Nippon Sport Science University">Nippon Sport Science University</a> Rugby Football Club players wearing their light and dark blue colors</figcaption></figure> <p>The use of colors to identify university sports teams dates back at least to the second <a href="/wiki/Boat_Race" class="mw-redirect" title="Boat Race">Boat Race</a> between <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford</a> and <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">Cambridge</a> in 1836.<sup id="cite_ref-thefield_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thefield-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While most universities use the same color(s) for their sports and other university branding, <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Blue" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge Blue">Cambridge Blue</a> is only one of twelve colors in the supporting palette for the university, not one of their six core colors.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/University_of_Nottingham" title="University of Nottingham">University of Nottingham</a> uses green and gold for its sports, but the rest of the university uses blue as its brand color.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Roger_Williams_University" title="Roger Williams University">Roger Williams University</a> changed its athletics colors in 2018 to match the university colors, in order to "foster a strong, unified visual identity for RWU Athletics that is more cohesive with the overall University", stating that "this combination will be powerful in strengthening RWU's brand identity and awareness".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most competitive teams keep two sets of uniforms in different colors so the two teams in a match can be distinguished. In some sports, such as <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">American football</a>, a darker color, often the school's main color is emphasized on home uniforms, with the away team wearing a lighter color or white,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while in other sports, such as <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a>, a lighter color is used for the home team and a darker color for the away team.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A third option used for some sports, such as <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">association football</a>, is that the home team gets to chose their color and the away team plays in a contrasting strip.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition, various groups that generate support for athletic teams, including <a href="/wiki/Cheerleading" title="Cheerleading">cheerleaders</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marching_band" title="Marching band">marching bands</a>, wear uniforms with the colors of their school.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> At many private schools, or more traditional state schools, "<a href="/wiki/Sporting_colours" title="Sporting colours">colors</a>" are <a href="/wiki/Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="Awards">awards</a> presented for achievement in a sport.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nicknames">Nicknames</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=School_colors&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Nicknames"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The university color can sometimes become a nickname for the sports program. For example, the Palatinate (<a href="/wiki/Team_Durham" title="Team Durham">Durham</a>) and the African Violet (Loughborough) in the UK,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Crimson" title="Harvard Crimson">Harvard Crimson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cornell_Big_Red" title="Cornell Big Red">Cornell Big Red</a> in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academic_dress">Academic dress</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=School_colors&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Academic dress"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Academic_Dress" class="mw-redirect" title="Academic Dress">Academic Dress</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sue_Smith.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Sue_Smith.jpg/220px-Sue_Smith.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Sue_Smith.jpg/330px-Sue_Smith.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Sue_Smith.jpg/440px-Sue_Smith.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1506" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Edge_Hill_University" title="Edge Hill University">Edge Hill University</a>'s academic colors of heliotrope (purple), gold, and green seen on the hood of honorary graduate <a href="/wiki/Sue_Smith_(footballer)" title="Sue Smith (footballer)">Sue Smith</a></figcaption></figure> <p>School colors are also used in the academic dress of many institutions. The first school color adopted by a university for its academic dress was <a href="/wiki/Palatinate_(colour)" title="Palatinate (colour)">palatinate purple</a> at <a href="/wiki/Durham_University" title="Durham University">Durham University</a>, England, some time between 1835 and 1838.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Whiting_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whiting-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Schools in the US that award an <a href="/wiki/Academic_hood" class="mw-redirect" title="Academic hood">academic hood</a> to their students and abide by the <a href="/wiki/American_Council_on_Education" title="American Council on Education">American Council on Education</a> guidelines use hoods lined with their school colors and trimmed with velvet in a color indicating the discipline of the degree.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some US <a href="/wiki/Academic_regalia" class="mw-redirect" title="Academic regalia">doctoral robes</a> will also be in the colors of the university which granted the degree, departing from the Academic Costume Code color of black.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academic_scarves">Academic scarves</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=School_colors&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Academic scarves"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Academic_scarf" title="Academic scarf">Academic scarf</a></div> <p>Many British, Irish and Commonwealth universities and some American universities have an <a href="/wiki/Academic_scarf" title="Academic scarf">academic scarf</a> in the university's colors, usually long, woollen and patterned only with lengthwise stripes of varying widths. At <a href="/wiki/Collegiate_university" title="Collegiate university">collegiate universities</a> such as the universities of <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Durham_University" title="Durham University">Durham</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lancaster_University" title="Lancaster University">Lancaster</a>, each college has its own colors and scarf. Other non-collegiate universities such as <a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">Glasgow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_University" title="Newcastle University">Newcastle</a> have scarf colors for each faculty.<sup id="cite_ref-scarfhistory_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-scarfhistory-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_school_colors">Notable school colors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=School_colors&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notable school colors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Columbia_Christy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Columbia_Christy.jpg/220px-Columbia_Christy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="342" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Columbia_Christy.jpg/330px-Columbia_Christy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Columbia_Christy.jpg/440px-Columbia_Christy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1579" data-file-height="2458" /></a><figcaption>A 1907 postcard representing <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>, featuring a woman dressed in <a href="/wiki/Columbia_blue" title="Columbia blue">Columbia blue</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Blue_(colour)" title="Cambridge Blue (colour)">Cambridge blue</a> – University of Cambridge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carolina_blue" title="Carolina blue">Carolina blue</a> – University of North Carolina</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_blue" title="Columbia blue">Columbia blue</a> – Columbia University</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duke_blue" title="Duke blue">Duke blue</a> – Duke University</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eton_blue" title="Eton blue">Eton blue</a> – Eton College</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxford_Blue_(colour)" title="Oxford Blue (colour)">Oxford blue</a> – University of Oxford</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palatinate_(colour)" title="Palatinate (colour)">Palatinate</a> – Durham University</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yale_blue" class="mw-redirect" title="Yale blue">Yale blue</a> – Yale University</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=School_colors&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gang_colors" title="Gang colors">Gang colors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colors_(motorcycling)" title="Colors (motorcycling)">Colors (motorcycling)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_uniform" class="mw-redirect" title="Sports uniform">Sports uniform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Varsity_letter" title="Varsity letter">Varsity letter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Couleur" title="Couleur">Couleur</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=School_colors&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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