![]() Prior to adoption of the Razorback as the mascot, the university's sports teams were known as the Cardinals. Cardinal and white are the official colors of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks.University of Southern California (USC) Cardinal A number of other universities use it as well. The school's mascot, Cy, was chosen based on the school's main color, cardinal, since a cyclone mascot would have been difficult to design. Cardinal and gold are the official colors of Iowa State University, located in Ames, Iowa.Cardinal is the official college color of University College, Durham - a college of Durham University in the United Kingdom - and is usually worn as the primary color of the college's many sports teams and societies, such as the football team, the hockey team and the boat club.The university was established by the Society of Jesus. Cardinal is the official color of Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea.It is reflective of the tinctures gules and argent in its coat of arms. Cardinal and grey are the official colors of La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.Cardinal and white are the official colors of California State University, Chico.Cardinal and gold are the official colors of the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans.Cardinal is the official color of Stanford University (although the athletic teams' official colors are cardinal and white, the university's athletic teams are called the Cardinal). ![]() Cardinal and White are the official colors of Sierra College, a community college in Rocklin, California.It is also the official color of athletic team The Engineer and official mascot Tim Beaver. Cardinal red and steel grey are the colors of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Cardinal red and black are the colours of St Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace in Brisbane, Australia.Cardinal is used by the Alpha Sigma Phi, Phi Kappa Psi, and Phi Kappa Theta Fraternities as well as the Chi Omega and Alpha Omicron Pi Sororities.The hex triplet for the web-safe version of the color is #CC2233. However, Stanford's, M.I.T's, and USC's PMS color is 201, while Carnegie Mellon and Worcester Polytechnic Institute use PMS 187, Brown University uses PMS 192, Iowa State University uses PMS 186, and Ball State University uses PMS 199. The corresponding Pantone Matching System (PMS) color is 200, as seen in the school colors for Wisconsin, Arizona and Wesleyan, and as one of the two official colors of the Phi Kappa Psi and Alpha Sigma Phi fraternities and the only official color of the sorority Alpha Omicron Pi. The first recorded use of cardinal as a color name in English was in the year 1698. The cardinal bird also takes its name from the cardinal bishops. The cardinal color takes its name from the color of the robes worn by cardinals.Ĭardinal is a vivid red, which may get its name from the cassocks worn by Catholic cardinals (although the color worn by cardinals is scarlet). ![]()
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