Texas Tech University
Texas
1923
Formerly “Texas Technological College”
Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): red/black (1934-1935); scarlet/black (1959-1960)
The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) must have assigned a black hood lining with a scarlet chevron to Texas Technical College not long after the school colors were adopted in 1926, but the college did not appear in an IBAC hood list with this description until 1948. However, hood lining data compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described Texas Tech’s hood lining as scarlet with a black chevron. This transposed color arrangement of the college’s hood lining also appears in a 1972 IBAC list, but unfortunately this pattern was identical to the one the Intercollegiate Bureau had assigned to Haverford College (scarlet with a black chevron) in 1895 or 1896. So here the original IBAC hood lining pattern for Texas Technical College has been restored.
Texas Technical College students voted to make scarlet and black their school colors in 1926, a year after the college’s first football team took to the field in those colors. Today Texas Tech describes their scarlet as “a pure and vibrant shade of red” without pink or orange tones.
