According to information from the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) recorded in the 1896 Living Church Quarterly (published in December 1895), the IBAC registered Haverford College as having the hood lining colors of scarlet and black in 1895, but the heraldic pattern used to separate these colors was not described. When a school had two colors, the IBAC tended to use a chevron as the standard way to divide those colors in the lining of a hood, and later interpretations of these early school color lists often assumed that the first color referred to the hood lining and the second color referred to the chevron. For example, the first definitive description of the hood lining for Haverford College was in an IBAC list from 1927, where it was stated to be scarlet with a black chevron, an assignment that continued without change in all IBAC lists thereafter.