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 beginning in 1895 the “parti per chevron” was also used quite frequently. Here the two school colors were placed in the hood lining one above the other, with the division between them following the shape of a chevron. Later the IBAC began to use a per reversed chevron division and may have employed (although this is not certain) a division per bar on rare occasions. Confusingly, in IBAC lists from 1927 and 1948, a number of hoods were described as “[color] above [color]” or “[color] over [color]” which referred either to a hood lining divided per chevron, per reversed chevron, or per bar, and today it is not usually known which of these three patterns the Bureau intended to describe.

The IBAC assigned Utah Agricultural College a hood lining of this type no later than 1927, according to an Intercollegiate Bureau list from that period that described the lining as “Yale blue above white”. Identical descriptions appeared in Intercollegiate Bureau lists from 1948 and 1972. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described Utah State University’s hood lining as navy blue with a white chevron, but this was erroneous. In what was probably the most accurate description, a 1969 IBAC list stated that the university’s hood lining was navy blue above white, divided per chevron.