The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) probably assigned an academic hood lining pattern to Central State Normal School not long after it became a four year college in 1919, but citations for this institution are not found in IBAC lists from 1927 and 1948, or in a compilation of hood lining information by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962). In Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970), though, Sheard said that the hood lining of Central State College of Oklahoma was old gold with a royal blue chevron. By this point the shade of blue the college was using had darkened from an azure or medium blue to the dark blue it uses today, so old gold and “royal blue” would have been a way to describe the shades of the college’s bronze and dark blue colors at that time. An IBAC list from 1972 described the hood with the official shades of bronze with a blue chevron. (“Blue” was how the Bureau typically described a medium shade of blue.) Here the university’s original (1895) shades of bronze (old gold) and medium blue (“true blue”) have been used, not the current shades of golden yellow and dark blue.