Academic hood lists published by the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) in 1927, 1948, and 1972 described Concord College as having a hood lined maroon with a gray 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. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) cited an identical description of Concord’s hood lining.