At some point between 1904 and 1927 the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) assigned Dakota Wesleyan University a hood lining that was “Yale blue above white”, which described either a hood lining divided per chevron, per reversed chevron, or per bar. Today it is not usually known which of these three patterns the IBAC intended to describe. “Yale blue” was one of the ways the Bureau described dark blue.

Utah Agricultural College had already been assigned “Yale blue above white”, so to avoid duplicating that hood a 1948 IBAC list revised Dakota Wesleyan’s hood lining description to “Yale blue and white” which was the way the Bureau normally described a hood lined per pale.

In Academic Heraldry in America (1962), Kevin Sheard cited Dakota Wesleyan’s hood lining as royal blue with a white chevron, and an IBAC list from 1972 similarly described the lining as Yale blue with a white chevron. These 1960s and 1970s citations must be erroneous, because the Intercollegiate Bureau had already assigned Duke University (royal blue with a white chevron), Middlebury College (Yale blue with a white chevron), and Pennsylvania State University (navy blue with a white chevron) similar hood linings in the early 1900s and therefore would have been unlikely to authorize an additional hood lining in that pattern.

The Bureau’s post-1927 revision avoided all of these problems, so this hood lining pattern for Dakota Wesleyan has been used here with the university’s correct colors of royal blue and white.