re: Where did LSU's purple color come from?

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I had heard that it came from a game against Tulane in New Orleans just before Mardi Gras. Tulane had gone to pick out fabric, and the green had come in, but not the purple and gold, for the upcoming Mardi Gras, so Tulane bought up most of the green and some white. When LSU got to town, the purple and gold had come in, and there wasn't much green left, so by default LSU had to buy purple and gold.

This sounds more right.

Need an LSU historian to come in here with a link.

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Don't have a link but Peter Finney wrote about it in his first history of LSU Football... The Fighting Tigers