MAROON (COLOR)

'Maroon' is a color related to dark red. Although conceptually a color mixture, it can be regarded as a dark (and possibly also desaturated) shade of red. Derived from French ''marron'' ("chestnut"), it didn't become a color-word in English until ''ca.'' 1791.

Contents
National colors
School colors
Sport
See also
Bibliography
References

National colors



★ Maroon and white are national colors of Republic of Latvia.

★ The Portugal national football team traditionally wore maroon uniforms.

School colors


Maroon is a popular color for school identification in the U.K, Canada, Sri Lanka and the United States. At the college or university level, schools using maroon include:

Colgate University, maroon and gray

Morehouse College, maroon and white

University of Massachusetts, maroon and white

Boston College, maroon and gold

Fordham University, maroon and white

Nalanda College, Sri Lanka, maroon and silver

Logan Park High School, maroon and black

Ananda College, Sri Lanka, maroon and gold

Campbellsville University, maroon and white

University of Chicago, specifically a shade known as "Chicago maroon" and white

Loyola University Chicago, maroon and gold

McMaster University, maroon and gray

Mississippi State University, maroon and white

University of Minnesota, maroon and gold

Virginia Tech, Chicago maroon and burnt orange

Roanoke College, maroon and gray; the school's nickname is also the "Maroons"

Texas A&M University,the aggies, maroon and white (sometimes gray) [2]

Lake Worth High School, Florida, maroon and white

Alabama A&M University, maroon and white

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, maroon and gold

Davenport University, maroon and gold

University of the Philippines, maroon and green; the school's nickname is also the "UP Fighting Maroons"

Digipen, Redmond, Washington, maroon

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Gryffindor (movies)- maroon and gold

★ It is also the color of the Air Force Pararescue beret.

University of South Carolina Aiken Campus, Pacers, maroon and white

Southern Illinois University, maroon and white/black

★ Ramapo College of New Jersey, maroon, white and black

★ Susquehanna University, Pennsylvania, maroon and orange

The City School, Pakistan, maroon and white

Trinity University (Texas), maroon and white

Federal Government College, Port Harcourt Nigeria (F.G.C.PH) maroon and white

★ New Britain High School, Connecticut, maroon and gold

Plano Senior High School, Texas, Maroon and White

Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada, maroon and white

University of Ottawa, "garnet" and grey. Garnet, being a shade of maroon.

Ivanna Eudora Kean High School, maroon and gold

★ Radford College, canberra australia

Sport



Queensland state rugby league team wear predominately maroon.

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, maroon and white.

Heart of Midlothian Football Club, maroon and white.

Torino Football Club, maroon and white.

Peterborough Petes, maroon and white.

See also



List of colors

Bibliography


See studies by C. Robinson (1969) and R. Price (1976, 1979).

References



1. W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
2. Texas A&M University Collegiate Licensing



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