Hiram College
Ohio
1850
Academic hood lists published by the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) in 1927 and 1948 described Hiram College as having a hood lined light blue with a bright red chevron. Information in the World Almanac suggests that the IBAC assigned this color arrangement between 1901 and 1917.
The IBAC may have interchanged Hiram’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 cherry red with a sky blue chevron – a description repeated as bright red with a light blue chevron in a 1972 IBAC list. Because this was essentially a duplication of the hood lining the IBAC had already assigned Dayton College (another school in Ohio) prior to 1927, Hiram’s original IBAC lining assignment has been retained here.
Information about the history of Hiram College’s cherry red and sky blue school colors is not available at this time.
Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): bright red/sky blue (1895); cherry red/sky blue (1896); red/sky blue (1897); cherry/light blue (1900); sky blue/cherry red (1902-1918); cherry red/sky blue (1923-1935)
