Bethel College
Kansas
1887
Bethel College students chose maroon and gray as their school colors in 1907. The college used a variety of light, medium, and dark shades of gray.
Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): gray/maroon (1917-1918); maroon/gray (1923-1935)
Based on color samples Bethel College sent the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC), the Bureau assigned Bethel a hood lined dark gray with a maroon chevron, according to IBAC lists from 1927, 1948, and 1972. A similar description of Bethel’s hood lining appeared in a list by Kevin Sheard published in Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970), but Sheard described Bethel’s hood lining as gray, not dark gray.