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re: No Foolin': Interesting college football facts
Posted on 4/1/22 at 2:33 pm to TouchdownTony
Posted on 4/1/22 at 2:33 pm to TouchdownTony
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The true Texas "burnt orange" is really an orange mixed with saddle brown. Darrell Royal wanted a color that could not be duplicated and they worked to mix in more brown which gave it a hue that was not orange as he wasn't fond of the color. Today, Texas is strictly burnt orange like Auburn but look at jerseys in the 70's and you see a more brown, darker hue vs today.
One little known fact. Vince Dooley was a fan of brighter colors. He had the UGA red revamped to be bringter upon arriving. UGA didn't bring silver pants into the fold until 1980 replacing the white but Dooley offset that with red road pants for some games that began in 79 against AU. Ray Goff, who was more a fan of black decided to drop the stripes from the sleeve to make the black stronger. Goff also went to a darker silver pant vs the Dooley "light gray". Mark Richt brought back the lighter gray pants but the no stripes on the sleeves and went to black socks. The red pants and stripes on the sleeves returned in 2020 for one game.
Auburn wore orange jerseys for some games between 78 and 80. The Aubie players had saw Notre Dame wear green jerseys for the first time against USC in 1976 and brought it to Doug Barfield. Barfield dismissed it but surprised the players before the UGA game when the players came in after warmups to find orange jerseys hanging in the their locker. Pat Dye upon arriving asked the equipment manager if they still had orange jerseys. The manager said yes, they were scheduled for production for the 1981 season. Dye said to cancel it as he hated orange. The orange jerseys have never been seen again. Auburn also had orange facemasks from 80-83 but switched to blue in 1984. Orange facemasks would return in 2021 for the first time since 83 for the Iron Bowl.
That's interesting, I really had no idea that the head coach had so much say in what uniforms looked like. I've never even really thought about it I guess.
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Posted on 4/1/22 at 3:19 pm to Funky Tide 8
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That's interesting, I really had no idea that the head coach had so much say in what uniforms looked like. I've never even really thought about it I guess.
There have been a couple of tidbits about the Texas color change that have been posted here.
The story about the dye thing changing their color to a lighter orange after the burnt orange period from the 1920s period is true.
It was controversial when Royal then changed the colors back to burnt orange in 1962 and it took four or five years for it to settle down and burnt orange become "official".
However, Royal's true motivation for the change was that he thought Burnt Orange was closer to the color of a football. He felt like that would be advantageous to his QBs and running backs with carrying out fakes and the like.
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