The history of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary’s academic hood lining pattern follows a meandering path. It is not known when the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) first assigned a hood lining to the seminary, but it was first cited in a 1927 IBAC list as having a hood with a purple lining and a white chevron. This changed in the late 1940s or 1950s, because a list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described the seminary’s hood lining as crimson with a white chevron. Then, in a 1972 list from the IBAC, the seminary’s hood lining was modified once again and described as gold with three reversed scarlet chevrons. Today Southern Baptist Theological Seminary continues to use a hood lining with that heraldic arrangement, but with the colors transposed (scarlet with three reversed gold chevrons).