History of UT Colors

by MMHorns on Apr 2, 2007 6:07 PM CDT

I saw some comment (that this should probably be a reply to instead of its own diary) which said something about how UT picked Burnt Orange b/c it was the last color available and that sounded very wrong and indeed it was. So for what it is worth I thought this article on the history of Burnt Orange was interesting:

I also found this:
"Legend has it that the burnt orange color was chosen by football coach Darrell Royal, who thought that it would help his players conceal the football when they ran the triple option."

Any dark colored jersey (or arms) is going to make the ball easier to hide, but i would venture to say burnt orange is pretty suited for just that.

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Got this off www.mackbrown.com

"In 1928, UT football coach Clyde Littlefield ordered uniforms in a darker shade of orange that wouldn't fade, and would later become known as "burnt orange" or "Texas orange." The dark-orange color remained in use until part-way though the Great Depression in the 1930s, when the dye became too expensive. UT uniforms were bright orange for another two decades, until coach Darrell Royal revised the burnt orange color in the early 1960s."

The article is under "Traditions" then "Burnt Orange and White".

Hell at one time we had "Maroon" as a color, really a great read.

Just Remember, No Matter What Happens, ou SUCKS.

by ouALWAYSsux on Apr 3, 2007 11:42 AM CDT 0 recs

that is the same story i posted

see blue hyperlink called "History of UT Colors" in my diary

anyways i agree it is interesting to hear about the slow progression to Burnt Orange.

Crystal Balls

by MMHorns on Apr 3, 2007 1:46 PM CDT up 0 recs

But my point is that

DKR resurrected the color. I really enjoyed the article though.

Can you imaging Gold and Maroon...........jeezzzzz.....

The "Hook'em" article is also a winner.

Just Remember, No Matter What Happens, ou SUCKS.

by ouALWAYSsux on Apr 3, 2007 2:55 PM CDT up 0 recs

Heard a great story about Royal the other day...

I was at a scholarship dinner where Royal was present (supposedly, Willie Nelson endowed the university with a Presidential Scholarship under Royal's name), and I was sitting at a table with a scholarship donor and a university employee. Both were students when Royal was first hired, and they knew him quite well.

Anyways, they were telling us a lot about Royal and the football program, and the donor was telling us about his friend (I'm calling him LP) who the donor named a scholarship after. Please note that I have no idea about the story's authenticity, but the source sounded pretty genuine.

LP was heavily involved in the football program, and one day, he was late to a meeting in which they were introducing the new football head coach. He went in, and there one someone in the front talking, and LP asked Coach Royal who that was. Royal responded that the man was the new head coach. LP then asked Royal if he knew anything about him, and Royal responded something like, "You know how me and Willie [Nelson] hang out and drink beers in the back of his bus? Well, this guy isn't allowed on that bus."

The coach who was introducing himself? John Mackovic.

by jc25 on Apr 3, 2007 3:33 PM CDT up 0 recs

Got this off Wikipedia

"Burnt orange has been used as a colour name for this dark shade of orange since 1915. This colour is one variation that is used as a school colour of the Clemson University, Virginia Tech, Auburn University, and The University of Texas at Austin.

Burnt Orange was popular in interior design in the 1970s."

Do any of those other schools actually call their version of orange Burnt Orange?

Officially a Limey Longhorn

by patienthornsfan on Apr 3, 2007 1:23 PM CDT 0 recs

No, I imagine that's trademarked

Just like how NCAA schools have to register their specific color hues in an RGB format (#FFFFFF)

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by chief on Apr 3, 2007 2:20 PM CDT up 0 recs

Lived in Virginia Beach, Va

for 10 years and never heard a Hokie (V.Tech) even mention their colors........or as old as I am I've never heard Auburn either or Clemson.

I've e-mailed friends from Auburn and V-Tech for info.

Just Remember, No Matter What Happens, ou SUCKS.

by ouALWAYSsux on Apr 3, 2007 3:32 PM CDT up 0 recs

Yeah I went to Wake Forest

which is in Clemson and VATech country and they never specified it as "burnt" orange. It should also be noted that as only have one color - where those other schools have 2.

If you told a Clemson fan to check out Burnt Orange and Northwestern Purple Nation he wouldn't know WTF you were talking about.

Which leads to why Burnt Orange Nation is not ambigous as to what school it represents. IMO, those other schools should lose the rights to burnt orange through adverse possesion or something like that.

Crystal Balls

by MMHorns on Apr 3, 2007 5:32 PM CDT up 0 recs

i never saw

anything about burnt orange being related to the color of longhorns in that story. i think there would be some influence one way or the other, wouldn't there?

by greenman on Apr 3, 2007 1:35 PM CDT 0 recs

which story?

the one i posted?

Crystal Balls

by MMHorns on Apr 3, 2007 1:38 PM CDT up 0 recs

yeah that one

by greenman on Apr 3, 2007 2:16 PM CDT up 0 recs

now i see what you mean...

the actual animal longhorn. Yeah, i thought I was going to see something about that as well. nice coincidence at least.

So FYI here is an interesting history of our first Longhorn masket - the first Bevo was "This longhorn already had an impressive history. The steer had been captured by a posse of Texans in a raid on Mexican cattle rustlers near Juarez in the fall of 1916. Presumably, the animal had been stolen from the Texas side of the river some time prior to his repatriation.":

http://tinyurl.com/ynnfe8

Crystal Balls

by MMHorns on Apr 3, 2007 5:41 PM CDT up 0 recs