Marquette University must have sent the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) fabric samples that were dark blue and gold, because IBAC lists from 1927, 1948, and 1969 described the university as having a hood lined “Yale blue” with a gold chevron. The IBAC used “Yale blue” as a synonym for dark blue, which was one way the Bureau disguised the fact that some of their hood assignments for common combinations of hood colors were being duplicated.

So, for instance, the IBAC hood lining for Marquette (Yale blue with a gold chevron) was indistinguishable from the IBAC hood linings for Emory University (navy blue with a gold chevron), the University of Pittsburgh (also navy blue with a gold chevron), Goucher College (Wellesley blue with a gold chevron), the University of Toledo (also Wellesley blue with a gold chevron), and Simmons College (dark blue with a gold chevron).

The Intercollegiate Bureau must have corrected this problem in 1969 or early 1970, because a list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970) described Marquette’s hood lining as blue with a “reversed” (inverted) gold chevron; the IBAC more accurately cited the university’s new design as Yale blue with a reversed gold chevron in a 1972 list. Marquette’s new hood lining pattern was similar to a design the IBAC had originally assigned Meridian College in Mississippi (navy blue with a reversed gold chevron), but this institution had closed in 1904.