# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/121 "2017-09-10T00:33:38Z")
Purple and White ---
**Author:** ![Murderface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Murderface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murderface)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/122 "2017-09-10T00:46:24Z")
Black and gold. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/123 "2017-09-10T00:54:02Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > 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. It was a joke about spending 6 years in a 4 year high school. I did look through the website and it’s hard to find the years it covers. US kindergarten is 5-6, first grade 6-7, all the way to 12th grade 17-18. Everything else can be interpolated; yes 9th grade is 14-15. The typical US high school is 9-12th grades, rarely 10-12 or even 6 or 7 to 12th grade schools exist. Sometimes due to low population but not always. The one I went to was 7-12, now I think it’s even 6-12, but it wasn’t because enrollment was low. I always thought you were raised in Australia. I hope nobody I know are _gasp_ Secret Canadians. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/124 "2017-09-10T00:58:22Z")
sklorange and nonxt. ---
**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, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/125 "2017-09-10T01:25:41Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I always thought you were raised in Australia. I hope nobody I know are _gasp_ Secret Canadians. Thank you for the clarification. I’ve lived in Australia since just before I began posting here (I was 30yrs old), so the assumption is not unwarranted. I will speak for both countries on occasion, which doesn’t help I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/126 "2017-09-10T01:30:13Z")
I went to three different High Schools. Brooke HS (Brooke County WV) Green and Gold Lanphier HS (Springfield IL) Black and Orange Pleasant Plains HS (Pleasant Plains IL) Red and Blue ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/127 "2017-09-10T01:35:47Z")
Purple and white. I only know this because the sports teams people wore their sports teams shirts to class on game days. I think we were the panthers. The other high school was the cougars. Or we were the cougars and they were the panthers. I’m not really sure. I was in theater. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/128 "2017-09-10T01:36:46Z")
Not sure but I _think_ they were red and gold. My undergrad university was red and black. Then grad school at the U of Hawaii, which officially uses gold and black, unofficially green, as in all the school shirts, caps etc seem to have a green theme. This _is_ Hawaii, you know. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/129 "2017-09-10T01:36:53Z")
My college was red and white. Indiana University. We were the Hoosiers. A dude with a giant head. Oh, and the school I went to for my junior year as a visiting student, Gallaudet University, was the “Buff” and blue. Buff is a dark yellow. The Bisons. ---
**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, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/130 "2017-09-10T03:21:51Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I think we were the panthers. The other high school was the cougars. Or we were the cougars and they were the panthers. I’m not really sure. I was in theater. If it helps, those are the same animal. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/131 "2017-09-10T03:31:04Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > If it helps, those are the same animal. Black panthers are leopards though, or sometimes jaguars. To me they’re all mountain lions. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/132 "2017-09-10T14:01:05Z")
Purple and white. Nice enough. Out of pure coincidence my Wife likes the color purple. And it looks nice with white. So we had a purple and white wedding. Didn’t even cross my mind. Some of my friends commented about it. Um no, it has nothing to do with high school. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/133 "2017-09-10T16:55:04Z")
Maroon and navy. Pretty dismal, but it could have been worse. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/134 "2017-09-10T17:07:22Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Maroon and navy. > > Pretty dismal, but it could have been worse. Yes, it could have been maroon and orange. Unsurprisingly, my school is the only one with those colors listed here so far. (That said, I do actually enjoy that combination of colors after being exposed to it for four years.) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/135 "2017-09-11T03:16:47Z")
My high school is Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, California. There is a big to-do on a Facebook page because the uniforms for the football team are in some colors other than the Redondo Red and White, suggesting 1) Corporate idiots who cannot follow directions or 2) Some PR stunt concocted by a firm which would be better off in the path of that hurricane. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/136 "2017-09-11T05:00:44Z")
not just red, but Crimson and White ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/137 "2017-09-11T16:49:22Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Unless I missed it…I can’t believe no one else had maroon and gold! We were the Hunters. Maroon and gold here. The Blackhawks. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/138 "2017-09-11T16:55:34Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > My high school is Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, California. There is a big to-do on a Facebook page because the uniforms for the football team are in some colors other than the Redondo Red and White, suggesting 1) Corporate idiots who cannot follow directions or 2) Some PR stunt concocted by a firm which would be better off in the path of that hurricane. :mad: People should be hurt or die because they got the football uniforms wrong? Maybe I’m missing the reason for such outrage here… ---
**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 11, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/139 "2017-09-11T17:11:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > South Kitsap High-green and gold. > Lakeland High-green and gold. Edited to add: When I graduated in 1976, Lakeland’s school colors for graduation were red, white and blue. Even the tassels were colored red, white or blue and they made us line up in that order(red, white , blue, red, white, blue etc) In some ways the Bicentennial really sucked. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/140 "2017-09-11T18:56:40Z")
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