College of Wooster
Ohio
1866
Information about the origin of the old gold and black school colors of the College of Wooster is not currently available.
Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): old gold/black (1895-1896); gold/black (1897-1900); black/old gold (1902-1913); black/gold (1914-1918); black/old gold (1923-1931); black/gold (1934-1935)
Although it may have been assigned as early as 1896 or 1897 (see the hood lining for the University of Missouri), the academic hood lining design for the College of Wooster was first cited in a 1918 Encyclopedia Americana article on academic costume written by Gardner Cotrell Leonard, the Director of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC). Leonard stated that the university had been assigned a hood lining that is old gold with a black chevron. This description did not change in subsequent IBAC lists.