re: No Foolin': Interesting college football facts

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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.

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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.