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Date: Mar 10, 2006

School Colors

Date: Mar 10, 2006

http://www.usm.edu/licensing/style_guide.html

Colors
The official colors for Southern Miss are Black and PMS 122 Gold or PMS 1235 Gold for athletic apparel.

Although PMS 122 gold is our official gold, the color represents in two completely different colors depending on how it is printed.

Therefore, we have chosen the complimentary Pantone Coated 136 to be used for glossy production pieces. The hexidecimal code for this PMS 136 is #FFC73B, which translates as RGB= 255/199/59 or CMYK=c0% m27% y79% k0%.

Pantone Uncoated 122, should be used for matte paper and production pieces and for the Web. The hexidecimal code for PMS 122 uncoated is #FDC737, which translates to RGB=253/199/55 or CMYK=c2% m21%. y77% k0%.

Southern Miss is aware of the fact that this color is difficult to duplicate for apparel in some instances, and the suggested Pantone equivalent to the 122 and 136 is Pantone Coated 1235 Gold.

Date: Mar 10, 2006

Don't try to complicate things with details or facts. Keep it as simple black and gold, and be happy the Gen isn't running around in the Rock.

You might start a discussion and who knows what that could lead to.

Released January 29, 2003

History

Origin of Colors

Black and gold have been Southern Miss' colors since the beginning of our institution, thanks to Florence Burrow Pope who, along with her husband Moran, was in the school's first class in 1912.

Soon after the doors of Mississippi Normal College opened, a committee was appointed to make recommendations concerning school colors. Florence was on the committee. "We were charged with selecting colors which no other college in Mississippi had adopted," she said. "Marye Miller suggested that the colors be maroon and gray. I suggested that they be black and gold. The two suggestions were submitted to the student body, and the student voted to have black and gold as the school colors."

Since that day, mascots, names, customs, and the campus have changed, but black and gold have remained the school's colors.

Evolution of the Mascot

The earliest nickname for the university's athletic teams was Tigers, but early teams were also referred to as Normalties. Then, in 1924, our teams' name was changed to Yellow Jackets.

When the college was renamed Mississippi Southern College in 1940, a name change for the athletic teams was fitting. In April 1940, the student body voted to name the teams Confederates. The teams were called the Confederates during fall 1940 and spring 1941. In September 1941, Confederates was dropped, and the teams were named Southerners.

Several years later, in 1953, General Nat (for Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest) was approved as the Southerners' mascot. In 1972, alumni, faculty, students, and staff were asked to submit new names for the athletic teams, and an ad hoc committee appointed by the Alumni Association voted on the submissions. Our present mascot, the Golden Eagles, was chosen as the athletic teams' name.

Golden Eagles was chosen over Raiders, War Lords, Timber Wolves and Southerners.

Date: Mar 10, 2006

Every "i" is dotted; every "t" is crossed.

Date: Mar 10, 2006

Awesome - thanks. We're buying a house, and the wife has allowed me the garage for my masterpiece. PMS 1235 Gold, here I come!!!!

Date: Mar 10, 2006

Van Gogh wrote:

Awesome - thanks. We're buying a house, and the wife has allowed me the garage for my masterpiece. PMS 1235 Gold, here I come!!!!

I am trying to imagine walking into Lowe's & saying, "I'd like to order 6 gallons of PMS..."

Date: Mar 10, 2006

Invictus wrote:

Van Gogh wrote: Awesome - thanks. We're buying a house, and the wife has allowed me the garage for my masterpiece. PMS 1235 Gold, here I come!!!! I am trying to imagine walking into Lowe's & saying, "I'd like to order 6 gallons of PMS..."

...or a Tulane grad asking for 6 gallons of Soylant Green.

Date: Mar 10, 2006

No Soylant Green for me, thanks - but PMS gold is in order for my playroom

Date: Mar 11, 2006

The "Normal-ties"--wow! Think we should consider that for our new website name?

Date: Mar 11, 2006

Thanks for the memories:

When I was in graduate school, I temped one summer for a printer, working mostly on those plastic-bound cookbooks published by Junior Leagues. I never knew there were so many colors! I laughed when I read info's post about the color names. We spent a morning once getting just the right pink plastic binding to match a pig's derriere (for "To Market, To Market" if any cookbook collectors have that.)