Academic hood lists published by the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) in 1927 and 1948 described Blackburn College as having a hood lined black with an old rose chevron. It is not known whether this was a hood lining pattern that had been officially assigned by the IBAC or merely a record of the college’s school colors applied to a hypothetical hood lining arrangement, but either way it was a unique hood lining not used by any other college or university at the time. The IBAC may have interchanged Blackburn’s hood lining colors in the late 1940s or 1950s because a list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described the college’s hood lining as old rose with a black chevron – a description repeated in a 1972 IBAC list. Here the original pre-1925 IBAC lining assignment has been retained.