# What were your high school's colors? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 6, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643 "2017-09-06T14:41:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/81 "2017-09-07T01:03:06Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > red and white (don’t ask what shade of red; I’m a guy!) It was maroon. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/82 "2017-09-07T01:09:34Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > Green and white. We were the Mustangs. Green and white Mustangs here too…Strongsville Oh? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/83 "2017-09-07T02:19:09Z")
Kelly green and white. Go, Rams. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/84 "2017-09-07T02:29:20Z")
The Bulldogs. Blue and white. The colors didn’t have much to do with bulldogs, but they were the “colors” of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, who ran the school. Just saying “Blue” doesn’t really describe it, though. No one could agree on what shade of blue was official. The four yearbooks while I was there were: White with light blue Dark blue with white Navy blue with gold Green (because the yearbook editor that year said “I LIKE green!”) > [@Folacin](#): > > I doubt that there are very many high schools with original compositions for their fight song. Mine did. It was written by one of the Sisters, who was faculty advisor to the Pep Club. Unfortunately, she was not a songwriter, nor a lyricist, nor could she even sing. The result was awful and didn’t last long. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/85 "2017-09-07T02:49:06Z")
Purple and Gold. Kellogg (Idaho) Wildcats. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/86 "2017-09-07T03:09:09Z")
Black and gold. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/87 "2017-09-07T03:43:50Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Red and white. The Chiefs. Are you sure?: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmgice3ieZ4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmgice3ieZ4) ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/88 "2017-09-07T03:48:22Z")
Maroon and Black at school Red and Silver at college. ---
**Author:** ![rbell2915](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rbell2915](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbell2915)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/89 "2017-09-07T04:09:09Z")
Orange and blue for my high school. Haven’t been to college yet. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/90 "2017-09-07T05:04:43Z")
It depends on just which school I am claiming or is claiming be. Either blue and gold or blue and red. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/91 "2017-09-07T06:02:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Are you sure?: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmgice3ieZ4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmgice3ieZ4) I knew what that video was, even before I clicked on the link. Great googly moogly. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/92 "2017-09-07T07:09:11Z")
Maroon and White. My son’s were the same in a different state with a different mascot. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/93 "2017-09-07T10:38:05Z")
Jr High (grade 7 & 8) – Blue and white? (Comets) High School – Orange and Black (Ghosts) College – Orange and Blue (Pioneers) Brian ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/94 "2017-09-07T10:51:22Z")
Black and gray, if you can believe it. Those dour Unitarians! ---
**Author:** ![Krav\_Manga](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krav_manga/32/3153_2.png) [@Krav\_Manga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krav_Manga)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/95 "2017-09-07T11:08:20Z")
Academic colours were red and gold. Sporting colours were Oxford blue and Cambridge blue. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/96 "2017-09-07T12:37:02Z")
Crimson and gold. Really red and yellow but that sounds more impressive. All Freshmen were arbitrarily assigned one or the other colors and whenever teams had to be chosen, all the crimsons were on one team and all the golds on the other. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/97 "2017-09-07T12:43:06Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Blue and gold. Northeast Ohio. We were the Blue Devils, which made a few Pentecostals and Jehovah’s Witnesses uneasy, but fuck 'em. Tallmadge? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/98 "2017-09-07T12:53:38Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Kelly green and white. Same here, but we were the Statesmen. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/99 "2017-09-07T13:56:48Z")
Baby blue and grey. South High Rebels. Confederate flags and all. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/100 "2017-09-07T14:29:44Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I knew what that video was, even before I clicked on the link. Great googly moogly. 😃 One of my all-time favorite ads. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643.md?page=6)