The IBAC also described the lining of the university’s hood as gold, not yellow. This was not a mistake because the two colors are heraldically identical, and Nebraska Wesleyan used a golden shade of yellow. The Cotrell & Leonard firm (the depository of the Intercollegiate Bureau) did not use metallic fabrics; the satin fabric they used for their hood linings gave all the lining colors a metallic sheen. This meant that IBAC descriptions of various yellow and gold fabric colors often overlapped. For example, the Bureau used the terms “yellow” and “lemon” to refer to a true yellow (a bright yellow hue), “maize” and “gold” to refer to a yellow with an orange tint (a golden yellow hue), and “old gold” to refer to a darker yellow with a orange-brown tint (an amber or goldenrod hue). But these were general tendencies, not hard and fast rules. The fact of the matter is that the Intercollegiate Bureau didn’t consistently assign colleges with a yellow school color a yellow hood lining color. Sometimes these schools would be assigned a gold hood lining color – especially if the college or university sent the IBAC a golden yellow sample of the school color, as in the case of Nebraska Wesleyan.

Here the traditional golden yellow and dark brown hues of the university’s colors have been restored.