University of Utah
Utah
1850
The school colors of the University of Utah were crimson and silver, but in the late 1910s white began to replace silver and for the next ten to fifteen years silver and white were used interchangeably. It is not known if this change was ever officially authorized, but today Utah describes its colors as red and white.
Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): silver/crimson (1900); crimson/silver (1902-1915); red/white (1916-1918); crimson/silver (1923-1931); red/white (1934-1935)
In a 1927 list, the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) described the University of Utah’s hood lining as crimson with a silver gray chevron. “Silver gray” is the term the IBAC used to indicate a satin lining fabric in a light shade of gray, which was used for institutions having either light gray or silver as a school color. An identical description appeared in a 1948 Intercollegiate Bureau list, but by 1972 the IBAC had reassigned the University of Utah a hood lining with its contemporary colors: crimson with a white chevron. Strangely, a 1969 IBAC list had described the university’s crimson color as “bright red”, which was usually the way the Bureau described a scarlet shade of red.
Here the original Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume hood lining design has been retained to avoid confusion with the hood lining pattern assigned to Dickinson College between 1895 and 1902 (cardinal with a white chevron).