# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/61 "2001-08-03T05:39:51Z")
While I can’t imagine that anyone would read this thread throught the second page, I’ll post anyway. High School: Green and Gold (It’s getting late, and I just thought that green should be spelled “grean.” Scary.) I am about to start my senior year of high school, yet I can’t quite remember my junior high school colors. Possibly green and white, but I really don’t know. Sad. I don’t think we even had colors in elementary, but our mascot was the panda. Pretty dang cool, I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/62 "2001-08-03T05:53:42Z")
Yup, [Sparky the Sun Devil](http://thesundevils.fansonly.com/). I couldn’t find an pic of the actually mascot though. I will try. They don’t make it easy for me. ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/63 "2001-08-03T05:53:42Z")
Grade School: royal blue and gold Highschool: royal blue and white College: forest green and gold College: purple and gold ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/64 "2001-08-03T05:56:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dlgirl \* > \*\*Yup, [Sparky the Sun Devil](http://thesundevils.fansonly.com/). I couldn’t find an pic of the actually mascot though. I will try. They don’t make it easy for me. \*\* I do mean “actual”. And I still haven’t found the real-life mascot. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/65 "2001-08-03T06:24:39Z")
Grammar School: Salt-and-Pepper Slacks and Blue/Green Plaid Skirts. (Catholic School: What? Are you going to call recess organized sports?) High School: (What the hell is _middle school?_) Royal Purple and Gold. Yep, us and the Vatican. College: Blue and Gold. I think those are the colors of every college in the University of California system, but I could be wrong… ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/66 "2001-08-03T07:04:04Z")
**MonkeyMensch** , middle school is Junior high or 7th, 8th and sometimes 9th grade. My Elementary and Junior High schools were combined. It was a small Catholic school, right down the street from my university. Did you like the uniform that you wore? I loved mine. I don’t know why. Elementary/Jr. High was in a transition phase, so didn’t have to wear a uniform if you didn’t want to. There was a definite dress code though. I didn’t mind. In my Catholic High School, we wore uniforms. Loved those, as I could just reach in my closet and pull out a shirt, skirt, and maybe a sweatshirt. They were very strict on skirt and short length as girls always hiked those up. I didn’t though. Maybe that is why I was never asked out. ☹ I wore a skirt everyday, unless there was mass. We could dress up for it, unless asked not to. (Yeah, our school was very strange in the dress code regard. I do not even want to explain.) The skirt was(is, I still have it and the rest of my uniform)navy and green plaid with yellow and red stripes. Uniform shirts were white polos with our school name embroidered in red on the upper left. I don’t think you want me to get any more detailed so I will save you more eye-wrenching details. Really, they weren’t awful. Sorry, I get carried away. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/67 "2001-08-03T13:19:29Z")
I thought Middle school was 6th, 7th, and 8th grade? ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/68 "2001-08-03T13:43:59Z")
Just want to add my school’s mascots. Middle School: Was the Warriors when I was there, but they changed it a couple of years after I left because it was an Indian, and they started getting lots of complaints about it. High School: Raiders. University: Eagles. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@Lady\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Ice)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/69 "2001-08-03T15:08:57Z")
\*\* > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by JosephFinn_ > > Of course, my high school had the appelation of “The Ramblers.” No, nobody there could explain it. It just was. \*\* Did you go to Mooseheart? Besides the high school my sister went to in Michigan, its the only Ramblers I’ve ever heard of. The story at my sisters high school says it was because they had to play all their sporting events away and the teams would pile into Nash Ramblers to get to all their games. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/70 "2001-08-03T15:33:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KarlGrenze \* > \*\*I thought Middle school was 6th, 7th, and 8th grade? \*\* Depends on the local school board. I started off with in a combination grade & junior high school. They decided to move 5th Grade upstairs with 6th thru 8th the same year I started 5th. The following summer, we moved to Brewster, NY (Putnam County), and I was in Middle School for 6th thru 8th. The high school I graduated from (Riverdale in Jefferson, LA) was 10th - 12th but added 9th when I started my senior year. ---
**Author:** ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/71 "2001-08-03T18:22:34Z")
Middle School: Blue & White High School: Blue & Orange (yuck). Mascot was a giant parrot brandishing a t-square… University 1: Gold (yellow?) & Black University 2: None that I know of ---
**Author:** ![caircair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@caircair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caircair)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/72 "2001-08-04T00:25:32Z")
Wilson Junior High (middle school): Green and White (Cavaliers) Eisenhower High School – Red, White and Blue (Cadets) Washington State University – Crimson and Grey (Cougars) No grad school yet. WON’T do the Husky/Purple-n-Gold thing, though! ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/73 "2001-08-04T00:55:33Z")
grade school/middle school: red and white high school: maroon and gold university: maize and blue more university: maroon and…something. Grey, I think… ---
**Author:** ![king\_of\_spain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7cd45c/32.png) [@king\_of\_spain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/king_of_spain)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/74 "2001-08-04T04:18:49Z")
(first post - hi everybody!) elementary school: blue/gold, Warriors middle/high school: grey/dark blue/white, Falcons college: purple/white, Sewanee Tigers (what year, **kniz**?) ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/75 "2001-08-04T04:55:45Z")
Elementary (Blazers): maroon and gold (I returned years later to find that they’d changed to navy and white. Boy was I pissed!) Middle School (Titans): green and yellow. I dunno if they called it gold or not, but it certainly wasn’t. High School (Tornadoes): freaking purple and white! Community College (Vaqueros): crimson and gold, though 99% of the students don’t know that any more than they know what a Vaquero is. Soon-to-be University (Anteaters, for crying out loud): the ubiquitous blue and gold. My high school’s cross-town rivals had red and black. Their gym uniforms must’ve looked much cooler than ours. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/76 "2001-08-04T05:24:59Z")
Elementary school/Junior High: blue and white Middle School/High School: red and white, black sometimes thrown in. People who liked red and white said the school colors were red and white; people who liked red, white, and black said the school colors were red, white, and black. Multiple junior colleges: I don’t know. I don’t think I ever knew. University: maroon and gold. And here is a picture of a real live [Sparky](http://www.asu.edu/alumni/saa/page6.html). ---
**Author:** ![Cyndar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cyndar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyndar)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/77 "2001-08-04T05:45:00Z")
Elementary school–can’t remember. Middle School (6,7,8)–green and gold (Eagles) High School–brown, white, orange (Bengals) College–green and yellow (Bulls) ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/78 "2001-08-05T02:03:47Z")
Academy colors: Cherry and Grey Never say red and white ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/79 "2001-08-05T03:18:51Z")
Elementary: I attended a small private school with no sports teams, so they didn’t need colors. Middle school: Black and yellow. High school: Red, white, and black. The high school that I attrended had formerly been the city’s black school during segregation. It was named for Paul Laurence Dunbar, a black poet, and the colors were green and white. When the school was moved to a new building in the 80’s, some people wanted to keep the name and colors, while others wanted new ones. They compromised my keeping the name, but getting new colors and a new mascot. College: Black and gold. ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533/80 "2001-08-05T04:42:56Z")
I got ya all beat for the most strange colors Texas Orange and white thats right, we even made up our own color… [http://www.eldoradoeagles.com/](http://www.eldoradoeagles.com/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-colors/74533.md?page=5)