Problem for the New Big East

[ivet]

We should be called the Blue East.
Georgetown: School colors are from the Civil War. Union Blue and Confederate Gray. It was suppose to signify the unification of the two forces. The school pre-dates the Civil War.

That's pretty interesting. I'm too lazy to research, but is that fact or legend? Did they have different colors pre-Civil War?

Georgetown
BECOMING BLUE AND GRAY

The Civil War (1861-1865) nearly closed Georgetown, as the student body dropped from 313 to 17 between 1859 and 1861. A total of 1,141 students and alumni enlisted in the war, serving in both the Union and Confederate forces.

After the Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) in 1862, several campus buildings were turned into a temporary hospital. To celebrate the end of the Civil War, Georgetown students selected the colors blue (Union) and gray (Confederate) as the school’s official colors in 1876.

http://www.georgetown.edu/about/history

DePaul

1901
The student body voted to select blue as the school color, signifying loyalty.
Students


1922
The nickname Blue Demons first appeared in print. The name evolved from "D-men," the term for DePaul athletes, who had a large'D' on their blue letter sweaters. (See 1900, 1901.)

Thus: Blue Demons.
http://www.depaul.edu/about/history-and ... 20&de=1929

[trephin]

thanks for the info. from the following link there was no official colors prior to the Civil War


http://www.hoyasaxa.com/sports/colors.htm

Georgetown Traditions: The Blue & Gray

Georgetown's colors are blue and gray. The colors were selected in 1876 by the Georgetown College Boat Club (the original crew team) in honor of Georgetown students and alumni who wore the Union blue and Confederate gray in the Civil War.

As recounted in a history of the crew by Lawrence H. Cooke, distinctive colors were important in watching crew races, since fans on shore wanted to know their team's location in the race. Harvard's crimson and Penn's red and blue were already well known, but Georgetown had no such colors to call its own. A student committee declared Blue and Gray "as appropriate colors for the [Boat] Club and expressive of the feeling of unity between the Northern and Southern boys of the College" and recommended its adoption for the team.

Soon thereafter, a banner was presented to the College by the Boat Club, sewn by the girls of the nearby Georgetown Visitation school. Half blue and half gray, it bore the inscription Ocior Auro ("Swifter Than The Wind"). The banner and its colors quickly became a part of college life. Student gatherings and formal University occasions both prominently featured the colors.

By the time intercollegiate teams were involved in varsity play, the Blue and Gray were already a Georgetown's tradition.