Academic hood lists published by the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) in 1927, 1948, and 1972 described St. Joseph’s University as having a hood lined crimson with a gray chevron. It is not known whether this was a hood lining pattern that had been officially assigned by the IBAC or merely a record of the university’s school colors applied to a hypothetical hood lining arrangement, but a list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described the hood lining of St. Joseph’s in an identical fashion.

If these citations indicate an official hood lining assignment by the Intercollegiate Bureau, the hood lining the IBAC assigned St. Joseph’s was a duplication of the hood lining the Bureau assigned Atlanta University (Harvard crimson with a gray chevron). This problem was resolved in 1988 when Atlanta merged with Clark College to form Clark Atlanta University with new school colors (and a new hood lining) of crimson, black, and gray.