The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) probably assigned a hood lining to Sacred Heart College in the late 1940s or 1950s, as the first reference to a hood was in a list Kevin Sheard compiled for Academic Heraldry in America (1962), where the college’s hood lining was described as red above blue, divided per chevron. A similar description can be found in a 1972 IBAC list. This was a pattern the Bureau had assigned to Franklin College in Ohio (“red above blue”) before it went defunct in 1919. The IBAC had assigned Franklin this hood lining to avoid duplicating the hood assigned in 1895 to the University of Pennsylvania (red with a blue chevron). Thus, by the 1940s, the per chevron hood lining arrangement vacated by Franklin was available for the Intercollegiate Bureau to assign to Sacred Heart College.