Southern Methodist University
Texas
1911
Because of the football prowess of Harvard University and Yale University, students at Southern Methodist University selected crimson and dark blue as their school colors in 1915.
Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): Harvard red/Yale blue (1923-1933); crimson/blue (1934-1935)
The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) assigned Southern Methodist University a hood lined Yale blue with a crimson chevron between 1915 and 1927. This description did not change in subsequent IBAC lists.
The Intercollegiate Bureau used “Yale blue” as a synonym for the dark blue shade officially used by Yale University and to avoid (at least on paper) the appearance of duplicating the hood it had already assigned to the University of Kansas (dark blue with a red chevron). So here SMU has been reassigned a hood lining with an inverted crimson chevron to distinguish it from Kansas’s hood.
The IBAC had begun using the reverse chevron arrangement by 1927 to avoid duplications of this sort, though apparently not in this case.