Sports teams' colors. Why do they call it "Gold"?

[BornStar]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: xrax

Originally posted by: BornStar18

Originally posted by: BDawg
I'm a Wake Forest alum. Our colors have always been Old Gold and Black. The colors on the uniform (except for a nasty yellow period in the 80s) have been Old Gold and Black.

Pssh. The only true Old Gold and Black is Purdue.

Purdue alumnus here. They don't wear the old gold anymore. Old gold has a greenish hue to it. They wear what is called vegas gold. WF's football pants look more like the vegas gold.

Go Pete. I used to hate it when that mofo and the band would march right past my area. Now I revere it.

There he was with his hammar. Tromping through the street next to my dorm at wiley. That SOB, didn't he realize people were trying to sleep? And the train. Always the train.

I had the joy of ROTC running by yelling at 6am on Saturdays in Shreve. Wasn't that a blast. :roll: