The University of Vermont was an early client of Cotrell & Leonard, according to The Cap and Gown in America (published in 1893 before the Intercollegiate Code of Academic Costume was written), a Cotrell & Leonard advertisement in the December 1895 issue of the Yale Literary Magazine, and in a Cotrell & Leonard advertisement in the 1896 Illio yearbook of the University of Illinois, which suggest an Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) registration of 1895 or 1896.

None of these references described the university’s hood lining. But Vermont is one of the schools in a list of college colors compiled by the 1894-95 Intercollegiate Commission to accompany the text of the Intercollegiate Code in 1895; here the university’s school colors of “straw” (not gold) and dark green were copied from information in the 1894 World Almanac. These would have been understood to be the colors in the hood’s lining, but the heraldic division of those colors was not specified. There was also an academic hood list from c.1912 in a book by Frank W. Haycraft entitled The Degrees and Hoods of the World’s Universities & Colleges that described Vermont’s hood lining as green with a gold chevron; this information might be from the IBAC but this is not certain.

A similar description of Vermont’s hood lining as dark green with a gold chevron was in a 1927 list from Haycraft that was definitely sourced from the Intercollegiate Bureau. Since Vermont had been a client of Cotrell & Leonard (the depository of the IBAC) prior to the creation of the Intercollegiate Code, it may have been one of the first colleges or universities to have been assigned a hood lining by the Bureau very soon after the Code was written in 1895 – probably dark green with a gold chevron.