florists concur.Here's our current Tennessee Volunteers However, when there was some confusion as to what shade of blue was the official color, students wanted to know what the exact color was going to be.Letterman Richard C. Stoll left a mark that will be remembered as long as they play sports in Kentucky by pulling off his necktie and held it up for the students to see. We'd love to hear your comments and/or opinions. College Sports Blogs | May be this is one of those times when it is appropriate to quote the great film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.". Auburn Basketball History | College Sports Gift | "Speaking with student leaders, we all agreed we didn't want yellow around Georgia athletics", reflecting extreme distaste for anything "yellow", or cowardly. However, several players decided to make a change to celebrate the importance of their first football game. Dr. Petrie thought for a few seconds and asked, "Orange and Blue? Not affiliated with the Southeastern Conference College Football Bowl History | I am sure you won't believe this, but the origins of Georgia's official school colors come from a disagreement with Georgia Tech.The first known hostilities between the two schools trace back to 1891. "After the 1893 football game against Tech, Dr. Charles H. Herty removed old gold as an official school color, probably because Tech handily beat the Bulldogs 28-6.Herty, the first UGA football coach, felt that old gold was too similar to yellow and that yellow "symbolized cowardice." Cardinal was selected over heliotrope, which is a shade of moderate purple. (Do they even make heliotrope anymore?) SEC Tennis | For more check out our current page about Auburn Tigers Football; Auburn Tigers Basketball; and Auburn Tigers Baseball. Click here to upload more images (optional). Even the College Licensing Company reported the school colors were red and black. Tennessee's orange and white colors were selected by Charles Moore, a member of the university's first football team, in 1891. The colors were the same as the common American daisy, which grew in the area. Not much in the way of a long, elaborate story on this one, but it's a good story nonetheless. Yale Blue and Harvard Red. That cemented royal blue as the official blue for the Wildcats.A year later, the students once again stepped forward to make a change, which was officially dropping light yellow for white.Read all about Kentucky Wildcats Football History and Kentucky Basketball History. Our University is blue and gold to its core, and we make sure that everything we do is just the right shade of these colors.Refer to the chart below for PMS codes, RGB codes, CMYK codes and Hex codes. SEC Track and Field | Colonel Reb, who was …, LSU: Fighting Tigers of Louisiana Not rated yetBack during the Civil War, there was a Confederate battalion based here in Louisiana. The colors weren't embraced on that day, and there was even an attempt to change the colors five years later, but to no avail.Learn all about South Carolina Gamecocks Football History and South Carolina Gamecocks Basketball History. Kentucky Basketball History | BCS Controversy | Check out our current Ole Miss Football; Ole Miss Basketball; and Ole Miss Baseball page. She wanted Dr. Petrie to use the colors of his alma mater, Virginia, for the game, so she sewed together a letterman's sweater made form the orange and blue colors the Cavaliers wore.