The chevron was by far the most common heraldic division the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) employed to divide the two or three colors in an institution’s hood, but Bureau director Gardner Cotrell Leonard also used other heraldic devices to avoid assigning duplicate hood linings to colleges and universities that used the same school colors. Possibly by 1918 (and certainly by 1925) one of the other heraldic divisions the IBAC occasionally used was the “reversed chevron”. Here the standard chevron of between three and four inches in width was inverted so that the chevron pointed upwards.

The Intercollegiate Bureau assigned the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas a hood lining that was maroon with a white “reversed chevron” no later than 1927, according to an IBAC list from that period. However, a list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described the hood lining of the college as maroon with a white chevron (not reversed), which was also how it was described in IBAC lists from 1969 and 1972. It is not known why the IBAC discarded Texas A&M’s unique hood lining and reassigned the university a lining that duplicated the one the IBAC had assigned to Lafayette College in 1896 (maroon with a white chevron), but here the original Intercollegiate Bureau hood lining pattern for Texas A&M has been restored.