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Colors: Purple and Gold
Posted on 12/16/17 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 12/16/17 at 4:26 pm
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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.
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Posted on 12/16/17 at 4:30 pm to Old
Wonderful if they ever could manage to display them
on festive celebratory occasions.
on festive celebratory occasions.
Posted on 12/16/17 at 4:35 pm to Old
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origin of Royal Purple and Old Gold
Wonder when the last time we actually used old gold...
Posted on 12/16/17 at 5:03 pm to Old
That original gold was not the yellow they use now
Posted on 12/16/17 at 5:08 pm to Old
I have also read the history of the Purple and Gold and it is fitting that the team named after the Louisiana Tigers of Civil War fame would wear the
Thang God they were out of green.
Thang God they were out of green.
Posted on 12/16/17 at 5:09 pm to Genestealer55
Well if it’s based on Mardi Gras colors probably never
Posted on 12/16/17 at 6:09 pm to Genestealer55
Im pretty sure we wore these vs Arkansas.
This post was edited on 12/16/17 at 6:14 pm
Posted on 12/16/17 at 6:11 pm to Old
I read somewhere that the colors were supposed to be blue and white, but the store was out so they used p&g.
Posted on 12/16/17 at 6:16 pm to Jim Rockford
Yeah, vs Arkansas.
One of the most violent hits I have ever seen. I was field level NEZ for this one.
Clean hit, drew a flag too.
Posted on 12/16/17 at 7:21 pm to tigerfan in bamaland
Perhaps E.B. Young was a Lakers fan 
Posted on 12/16/17 at 7:50 pm to Genestealer55
1956 Football Uniforms
1956-57 Basketball Uniforms
1956-57 Basketball Uniforms
Posted on 12/16/17 at 8:25 pm to Old
quote:According to Tulane they bought up all the green leaving us with the purple and gold.
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.
LSU switched to the yellow color when Paul Dietzel came and copied the Geen Bay Packer helmets. (Or so have read. No link)
Posted on 12/16/17 at 9:44 pm to cj35
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That original gold was not the yellow they use now
It would not hurt my feelings one bit for LSU to pull the plug on the canary yellow and lilac.
Posted on 12/16/17 at 11:56 pm to cj35
Even up to the end of the 1971 season the "gold" was not today's yellow. It was an orange-yellow color, about 1/3 of the way from pure yellow to pure orange.
Posted on 12/17/17 at 2:36 am to tigerfan in bamaland
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tigerfan in bamaland
Damn, I remember that game. And that hit. Yes, it was a clean "tackle". Jones absolutely broke Adams in two. It was fricking glorious and gruesome at the same time. 10/10 on the "Lay Wood" scale.
Posted on 12/17/17 at 5:51 am to TigerAxeOK
That original gold colored helmet pictured earlier in this thread is sweet. I wish the New Orleans Saints would return to that. I'll stick to LSU's current helmet, however.
Posted on 12/17/17 at 8:01 am to tarzana
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Even up to the end of the 1971 season the "gold" was not today's yellow. It was an orange-yellow color, about 1/3 of the way from pure yellow to pure orange.
It was like this in the 1980’s as well.
Posted on 12/17/17 at 3:22 pm to Old
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Coates and quarterback Ruffin Pleasant bought up all of the purple and gold stock and made it into rosettes and badges.
Posted on 12/18/17 at 7:00 am to tigerfan in bamaland
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Im pretty sure we wore these vs Arkansas.
Yep, 2009 I believe. Loved the helmets the unis were meh.
Posted on 12/18/17 at 9:07 am to tigerfan in bamaland
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