In the late 1800s, the freshmen, sophomore, junior, and senior classes at Central College would choose class colors and a class yell as a form of intra-collegiate rivalry. In 1893, around the time many colleges and universities were adopting a school color or colors for their athletic teams to use, one of the classes at Central was using Nile green and black. The rest of the students thought this combination of colors would make an ideal set of school colors, so they voted to make them the colors for Central College. “Nile green” is a light to medium shade of yellowish green that can vary between a jade green, apple green, lime green, olive green, or avocado green. Webster’s Dictionary defines Nile green as “yellow-green in hue, of low saturation and high brilliance.” Today, however, Central Methodist uses a dark shade of green along with black and white as its school colors.