# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/101 "2017-09-07T14:46:31Z")
High school - (Royal) Blue and Gray College - Orange and Black ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/102 "2017-09-07T15:17:50Z")
O’Fallon Township High School Panthers. They _called_ their colors Blue and Gold. But they were actually Blue and Yellow. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/103 "2017-09-07T15:33:56Z")
> [@Krav\_Manga](#): > > Academic colours were red and gold. > Sporting colours were Oxford blue and Cambridge blue. Why did they have different colors? The jocks and the nerds didn’t want to be associated with each other? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/104 "2017-09-07T16:00:24Z")
Hail our Panthers, hats off to thee! To our colors true we will ever be! **Red, black, white!** United we stand! ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/105 "2017-09-07T17:38:30Z")
Blue and White. Eagles ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/106 "2017-09-07T18:22:50Z")
Blue and white. Havre Blue Ponies, from Havre, Montana. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/107 "2017-09-07T18:59:22Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > What’s wrong with blue and orange? That actually used to be one of my favorite color combinations (as long as it’s predominantly blue with orange accents. Maybe 80% blue to 20% orange at most). These days, it’d be more a deep blue and yellow-orange. As a Chicagoan and an Illinois alum, I’m fond of the combo too. It’s very festive in a football stadium, I think. My HS colors were Green and Gold…which I don’t have much nostalgic affection for due to the GB Packers. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/108 "2017-09-07T20:37:23Z")
antelope valley high “lopes” red and black ---
**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 8, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/109 "2017-09-08T01:30:03Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > High school - (Royal) Blue and Gray > College - Orange and Black You know, without looking it up I am guessing blue and gold for college as well (Pitt); that is how much an impression the university made on me. Now St Olaf College on the other hand ------ black and gold. And I have only ever been there as a guest speaker. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/110 "2017-09-08T01:44:33Z")
Green and gold. Long Beach Polytechnic, home of the Jackrabbits! EDIT: and Snoop Dogg and Cameron Diaz, among many others. ---
**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 8, 2017, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/111 "2017-09-08T08:15:09Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Why did they have different colors? The jocks and the nerds didn’t want to be associated with each other? Not sure. According to the website- > [@](#): > > Brisbane Grammar School has two sets of colours. The first, introduced by Mr T. Harlin, Headmaster 1869-1876, were red and gold and have become associated with academic pursuits. Mr R.H. Roe, Headmaster 1876-1909, introduced the Sporting Colours of Oxford and Cambridge Blue. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/112 "2017-09-08T08:39:28Z")
Maroon and Gold ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/113 "2017-09-08T09:05:09Z")
Green and gold. There was some reason for them, but I can’t remember what. We also had a coat of arms thingy with a Latin phrase that was all very symbolic and important, but nobody really seemed to actually apply it to anything. We were very cynical at our school. It has [a sad little website](http://eohs.school.nz/) these days, but of course, not when I was there, in the ancient days of 1981-87. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/114 "2017-09-08T15:17:01Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Maroon and Gold Interesting. The colors of the junior high school I went to, Poplar Bluff Junior High School, Poplar Bluff, Missouri, were maroon and white for the Poplar Bluff Mules. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/115 "2017-09-08T16:18:13Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Green and white Mustangs here too…Strongsville Oh? Nope, Chicago’s Morgan Park High School. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/116 "2017-09-08T16:47:37Z")
South Kitsap High-green and gold. Lakeland High-green and gold. ---
**Author:** ![RollOutTheBarrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rolloutthebarrel/32/1649_2.png) [@RollOutTheBarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RollOutTheBarrel)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/117 "2017-09-08T17:43:14Z")
Green and white. Go, Warriors! Like a couple other posters, our fight song was to the tune of “On, Wisconsin”. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/118 "2017-09-09T21:16:18Z")
Plaid and White. The band all wore kilts. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/119 "2017-09-09T23:15:00Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > It has [a sad little website](http://eohs.school.nz/) these days, but of course, not when I was there, in the ancient days of 1981-87. Ah, I remember being a sophomore, three of the best years of my life. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/120 "2017-09-10T00:20:57Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > Ah, I remember being a sophomore, three of the best years of my life. I don’t know what that means. My school was a regional one, it served a large area that included about six or seven outlying fishing villages and farming communities, so students ranged from ages 11 to 17. Basically Middle School (we called that Intermediate) to the last years of High School, but the system was more like the British than anything America has, and it was in the Southern Hemisphere so the school year began in January. Basically, what I’m saying is, there are so many differences to how other countries do it, I find it difficult to equate it to what anybody else experienced. Things like Junior, Sophomore, and Senior, or Summer Camp, or “Ninth Grade” don’t mean anything to me. Americans insist on measuring their childhood by which grade they were in, and I have to spend a minute or two working out the maths to understand how old they were to compare it with my own experience. “Ninth Grade” was probably age 14 maybe? So that might be “Fourth Form” for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643.md?page=7)