# High School Colors **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 1, 2001, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533 "2001-08-01T20:34:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/1 "2001-08-01T20:34:26Z")
Okay, this is stupid, but I was still wondering. What were your high school colors? The reason I bring this up is that I am wearing an old school shirt that was used for a fundraising that we would do every year. I loved my school. My high school colors were red and gold. I so hope that I put this in the right forum. [sub]Just a little hijack- Jr. high colors - red/white High School colors - red/gold University colors - maroon/gold Very interesting. I had to share that. Just something for me to think about.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/2 "2001-08-01T20:37:01Z")
OK, but only because I happen to be wearing my h.s. colors today! elementary: blue & white middle: red & gold high: blue & gold (still one of my all-time favorite color combinations) undergrad: purple & white (FU one time!) grad: who the hell knows? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/3 "2001-08-01T20:40:28Z")
Let me preface this by saying I moved around a few times, so sometimes the colors changed mid-year. Elementary: Red/white, hell if I can remember Junior High: Blue/gold, red/black High school: Red/black College: Red/white until I got kicked out (About 3 weeks into my first year) ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/4 "2001-08-01T20:43:03Z")
Elementary: blue & white Middle: blue & gray High: blue, gray, & white My senior year of high school starts tomorrow. (P.S.: 51 posts! Sun-Drop for everyone!) -Brianjedi ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/5 "2001-08-01T20:51:21Z")
Elementary :Blue and White Junior High :Yellow and Brown High School : Red, White and Black University: Red and Black ---
**Author:** ![lightthelight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@lightthelight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightthelight)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/6 "2001-08-01T20:55:33Z")
High School:black and white ---
**Author:** ![Home\_of\_the\_Braves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Home\_of\_the\_Braves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Home_of_the_Braves)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/7 "2001-08-01T20:56:01Z")
Elementary – Red/White Junior – Red/White/Blue High – Red/Gray College – Red/White/Light Blue Grad – Who knows? Probably Yellow/Green ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/8 "2001-08-01T20:59:50Z")
Elementary: Yellow/blue Secondary School: White/red University: Probably Orange/blue ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/9 "2001-08-01T21:00:34Z")
My high school colors were red and white. Those colors sort of ended up following me around, as my wife’s high school colors were red and gray, and my fraternity colors were “cardinal and stone,” or red and gray. My college colors were yellow and black. ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/10 "2001-08-01T21:10:30Z")
Grade school – royal blue and gold High school – cardinal and grey (we are the fightin’ Sequoits!) College – blue and orange (which is a horrible combination unless you’re the Chicago Bears, and even then it’s questionable) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/11 "2001-08-01T21:14:58Z")
Elementary: Blue and white High School: Blue and white Undergrad: Blue and Gold Grad (1st attempt): Blue and Gold Grad (let’s try this again): Red and White ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/12 "2001-08-01T21:27:18Z")
My high school colors: gray and “Columbia blue” My middle school colors: red and white jessica ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/13 "2001-08-01T21:40:00Z")
Elementary School: Blue & white Junior High: Yellow & Orange (icky, icky, icky) High School: Blue & White again University: Blue & Yellow (well, at least it wasn’t white again) Grad school: Maroon, Yellow, and White (less attractive than it might have been). A guy in my neighborhood went to a high school whose colors were purple and gold. He was horribly embarrassed by them. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/14 "2001-08-01T21:43:07Z")
Elementary-green and gold 2nd elementary school-blue and white high school-green and white College-blue and white ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/15 "2001-08-01T21:52:47Z")
Elementary: Blue and silver (grey, but they called it silver because it was in Nevada) Middle Schoo: First two years it was purple and white. Then I moved and the school colors were red and white. High School: Red and black/white ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/16 "2001-08-01T21:59:15Z")
Elementary - blue & white Jr high - can’t remember High school - black & gold College - black & gold ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/17 "2001-08-01T22:01:01Z")
Elementary: Blue & White Jr. High: Blue & White High School: Blue & White University: Blue & White Go figure, they were all different schools, just an odd coincidence I suppose. Abby ---
**Author:** ![deepbluesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@deepbluesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deepbluesea)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/18 "2001-08-01T22:04:11Z")
Allow me to say I am deeply, even profoundly impressed by those of you who can remember the colors of elementary schools and so forth. I didn’t even know elementary schools and middle schools _had_ colors, and although I’m sure both the college and the university I attended had colors, I couldn’t tell you what they were under torture. High school colors are the only ones I remember, and I remember them because they were so, so awful. **Vomit orange** (they had another name for it, but it was vomit orange, trust me), “gold” (they called it that, but it was really mustard yellow), and white. Worst part: _we graduated in vomit orange gowns._ I actually didn’t graduate - and, come to think of it, the colors might just have had something to do with that - but my sister did, from the same high school, and I remember it clearly: all these kids in vomit orange caps and gowns walking down long staircases into the auditorium. It looked like a massive vomit volcano. Whoever chose those colors needed a swift kick where it would be most instructive. The vomit orange was reviled by the entire school; we had yearly petitions to change the colors (always met with disinterest by the admin). And with uniforms (cheerleaders, sports, etc.) you could tell which teams had the most status by who had the least vomit orange in the uniform. The freshman teams were simply coated in it, but the varsity teams had little tiny snippets in discreet locations. Yeesh. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/19 "2001-08-01T22:10:38Z")
Elementary school: Green/Gold Junior High: Blue/Orange High School: Brown/Gold College: Blue/Gold Why is everybody “Gold” and not “Yellow”? ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/20 "2001-08-01T22:23:54Z")
Elementary: Blue and White Middle school: didn’t have colors High School: Officially “Scarlet and Gold” practically, red & yellow. Undergrad: a very specific shade of maroon, and an equally specific shade of gray. Grad: Purple & Gold [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533.md?page=2)