Antioch University
Ohio
1852
Students at Antioch College selected light blue and pink as their school colors not long after the college was founded in 1852, perhaps because the college was coeducational at a time this was rare. To create more aggressive-looking sports uniforms, a darker shade of blue was used and old gold was substituted for pink at an unknown point in the first two decades of the 20th century.
Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): red/blue (1895); old gold/blue (1923-1931); blue/gold (1934-1935)
Academic hood lists published by the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) in 1927 and 1948 described Antioch College as having a hood lined “rose” with a light blue chevron. The IBAC probably described Antioch’s pink as “rose” to avoid duplicating (on paper) the hood lining already assigned to Rutherford College (pink with a light blue chevron). By the late 1940s Rutherford had merged with Weaver College to create Brevard College (with new blue and white school colors), and Antioch had also adopted new school colors, so a 1972 IBAC list now described Antioch’s hood lining as royal blue with a gold chevron. Here the original IBAC lining assignment from before 1927 has been retained.