Ball State University does not appear in 1927 or 1948 Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) lists. The university must have been assigned a hood lining in the late 1940s or 1950s, because a list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described the lining of Ball State’s academic hood as being red with a white chevron, a description also found in a 1969 IBAC list. However, a 1972 IBAC list more accurately stated that the shade of red was cardinal. The Bureau had previously assigned an identical hood lining to Dickinson College (cardinal with a white chevron) between 1895 and 1902, so to avoid this problem Ball State has been reassigned a uniquely-patterned hood lining that is white with a cardinal bar (what the IBAC called a “zone”). The Intercollegiate Bureau used a “zone” arrangement of hood lining colors as early as 1902 to avoid duplications of this type.