When did LSU change from gold gold to yellow gold?

1924























































Honestly, I have no idea.

And in the Burrow highlight film, our purple looks super blue at times. I know this has been pointed out before.

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What year was it?

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the mid 50s

for reference, a game from 1956


We switched to our current template prior to our national title season

I read that the classic late 50's teams were the darker gold.
Probably sometime in the mid/late 60's or so, I imagine the lighter color translated better to B&W tv, etc.

I don't know anything as fact, just guessing

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I didn't know that we did. I thought the story was we got our colors from leftover Mardi Gras decorations (which also uses "yellow gold")?

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We did. And Tulane got the green.

I have a Billy Cannon doll from 1959 that has the yellow gold on it, so it must pre date that.

Jimmy taylor (1954-1957) wore the old gold

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wish we would go back to royal purple and old gold. I do not like lavender and canary yellow.

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Lavender? Wtf?

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Colors and templates changed after the 1956 season


Here you have the old template and old traditional gold in a 1956. See Jim Taylor #42.




Taylors uniform in color




Lsu vs Texas from 1957. You can see the template change





colorized picture of uniform