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re: what is LSU wearing
Posted on 12/30/09 at 9:47 pm to pistolpete23
Posted on 12/30/09 at 9:47 pm to pistolpete23
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Wrong Original colors were Royal Purple an Old Gold as in same gold they wore vs hogs Still best looking uniforms in football (IMO)
LSU had old gold and royal purple from 1893 to 1956,
a total of 63 years.
LSU has used the yellow/ darker purple since 1957,
a total of 52 years.
We did not copy Green Bay; it was actually Dietzel who wanted the new unis. They were copied from UCLA.
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Posted on 12/30/09 at 10:52 pm to BT4LSU
Our colors were taken from the colors of Mardi Gras. Look at a Mardi Gras flag and compare colors.
Posted on 12/30/09 at 11:03 pm to Balloon Pilot
Colors: Purple and Gold
There is some discrepancy in the origin of Royal Purple and Old Gold as LSU's official colors.
It is believed that those colors were worn for the first time by an LSU team in the spring of 1893 when the LSU baseball squad beat Tulane in the first intercollegiate contest played in any sport by Louisiana State University. Team captain E.B. Young reportedly hand-picked those colors for the LSU squad.
Later that year, the first football game was played. On November 25, 1893, football coach/chemistry professor Dr. Charles Coates and some of his players went into town to purchase ribbon to adorn their gray jerseys as they prepared to play the first LSU gridiron game.
Stores were stocking ribbons in the colors of Mardi Gras -- purple, gold and green. -- for the coming Carnival season. However, none of the green had yet arrived at Reymond's Store at the corner of Third and Main streets. Coates and quarterback Ruffin Pleasant bought up all of the purple and gold stock and made it into rosettes and badges.
There is some discrepancy in the origin of Royal Purple and Old Gold as LSU's official colors.
It is believed that those colors were worn for the first time by an LSU team in the spring of 1893 when the LSU baseball squad beat Tulane in the first intercollegiate contest played in any sport by Louisiana State University. Team captain E.B. Young reportedly hand-picked those colors for the LSU squad.
Later that year, the first football game was played. On November 25, 1893, football coach/chemistry professor Dr. Charles Coates and some of his players went into town to purchase ribbon to adorn their gray jerseys as they prepared to play the first LSU gridiron game.
Stores were stocking ribbons in the colors of Mardi Gras -- purple, gold and green. -- for the coming Carnival season. However, none of the green had yet arrived at Reymond's Store at the corner of Third and Main streets. Coates and quarterback Ruffin Pleasant bought up all of the purple and gold stock and made it into rosettes and badges.
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