Loyola University Maryland
Maryland
1852
Students at Loyola College in Maryland chose blue and gold as their school colors around 1852, but these were changed to blue and gray after the War Between the States. In 1922 the college moved to a new location called “Evergreen” in Baltimore, so the colors were changed again to green (symbolizing Evergreen) and gray (symbolizing the South). The green was a dark spruce green hue.
Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): green/gray (1923-1935)
The green color sample Loyola College sent to the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume must have been atypically pale because academic hood lists published by the Bureau in 1927, 1948, and 1972 described Loyola College as having a hood lined light green with a gray chevron. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described the college’s hood lining more generically as green with a gray chevron.