To avoid assigning duplicate hood linings to colleges and universities that used the same school colors, the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) used different types of heraldic patterns to divide the two or more colors in an academic hood. One of the heraldic divisions the Bureau occasionally employed was a “reversed chevron”. Here the standard chevron of between three and four inches in width was inverted so that the chevron pointed upwards.

To avoid duplicating the hood lining assigned to Stetson University, the IBAC assigned Northeastern State College a hood lining that was green with a white “reversed chevron” in the late 1940s or 1950s, which was how the college’s hood lining was described in an IBAC list from 1972. In Academic Heraldry in America (1962), Kevin Sheard said that the college’s hood lining was “Kelly green” with a white reversed chevron. Vintage examples of collegiate memorabilia from Northeastern State typically use a true green, but the college may have briefly used a Kelly green shade in the 1950s or 1960s when lighter and brighter colors became more popular in the US. Here the university’s original medium shade of true green has been restored.