# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 8
**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, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/141 "2017-09-11T19:02:19Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > People should be hurt or die because they got the football uniforms wrong? Maybe I’m missing the reason for such outrage here… If that were the only thing they did, it wouldn’t matter. I’m talking about a general idiotic, insensitive, corporate mentality which has no place in a civilization. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/142 "2017-09-11T20:18:18Z")
Green and white. We were the Trojans - we practiced safe sports. (Actually this was long before the AIDS thing.) White isn’t actually a color, nor is black. So technically our colors were green, and the whole spectrum put together. The physics club wanted to change the colors to green and ultraviolet, but that was after they had discovered drugs. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/143 "2017-09-11T21:11:11Z")
Another Northeast Ohio school represented here – North Olmsted. 'We are the Eagles – Mighty Mighty Eagles!" Colors are orange and black, and the alma mater is to the tune of Cornell’s “High Above Cayuga’s Waters”. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/144 "2017-09-18T03:54:57Z")
> [@Krav\_Manga](#): > > Academic colours were red and gold. > Sporting colours were Oxford blue and Cambridge blue. I’ve never heard of Cambridge blue before, so I looked it up. [I see](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/50shadesofblue-091125191343-phpapp01/95/50-shades-of-blue-11-728.jpg?cb=1259177217) from it being a lovely [mint green](https://heyloons.com/2017/07/09/cambridge-blue-and-the-red-herring/) they let the same colorblind fellow who calls dark purple flowers black and light purple flowers blue name the color. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/145 "2017-09-18T03:59:31Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I’ve never heard of Cambridge blue before, so I looked it up. [I see](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/50shadesofblue-091125191343-phpapp01/95/50-shades-of-blue-11-728.jpg?cb=1259177217) from it being a lovely [mint green](https://heyloons.com/2017/07/09/cambridge-blue-and-the-red-herring/) they let the same colorblind fellow who calls dark purple flowers black and light purple flowers blue name the color. You know what they say about Cantabrigians! (insert some British Oxford class thing I’ll never understand). ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/146 "2017-09-18T05:21:51Z")
Scarlet, Navy Blue, and Gray The teacher who proposed the color scheme and wrote the fight song and alma mater when the school was established in 1960 had been a bandsman on the USS Indianapolis. The band uniforms were very Navy-centric. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2017, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/147 "2017-09-19T04:16:59Z")
High School - Orange and Black First College - Blue and Gold Second College - Red, White, and Black. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2017, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/148 "2017-09-19T06:50:43Z")
Dark red/maroon and yellow. We were the West Bend East Suns. Our sister school were the West Bend West Spartans with dark blue/light blue. [![](https://i1.wp.com/vbriefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1.gif) ](https://i1.wp.com/vbriefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1.gif) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2017, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/149 "2017-09-19T13:14:52Z")
When I started high school our teams were called the “Redskins” and we had the same colors as the Washington football team. After two years the name was changed to Panthers to not be racist and offensive, but we kept the colors. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/150 "2017-09-19T15:05:10Z")
Green and yellow (although I’m sure the Jesuits insisted it was gold). A bit odd, since our mascot was the cardinal, which is neither green nor yellow/gold. Like the colors, the logo on our football team’s helmets was lifted directly from the Packers. ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643/151 "2017-09-20T02:53:00Z")
Blue and gold (Cubs), weirdly, the exact same colors of my college sportsball mascot (Bruins). Never thought about the …synchronicity? …coincidence? before. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-high-schools-colors/795643.md?page=7)