{"id":145883,"date":"2019-02-08T07:50:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=145883"},"modified":"2019-02-08T07:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:52:17","slug":"talkin-national-flag-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/02\/talkin-national-flag-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Talkin&#8217; National Flag Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows what UConn\u2019s official colors are. After all, it\u2019s right there in the <a href=\"http:\/\/uconnband.org\/history\/fight-song\/\">University\u2019s fight song<\/a>: \u201cvict\u2019ry again for the White and Blue.\u201d But which blue are we talking about?<\/p>\n<p>Generations of Huskies remember hearing our signature shade described as National Flag Blue, but as we discover in this segment from Episode 26 of UConn360, it isn\u2019t quite that simple. The story of how UConn got its colors \u2013 and what colors those are \u2013 involves distant memories of the 1890s, a visit to the head research chemist at the old American Thread Co. in Willimantic, and an exasperated athletic director tired of uniforms that didn\u2019t look, well, uniform. Along the way we learn that the blue in \u201cthe White and Blue\u201d once may have been closer to the light shade favored by the University of North Carolina than to today\u2019s familiar dark hue, and we talk about how something called the Pantone system changed our colors forever.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry, though: once you\u2019ve listened, you\u2019ll still be able to cheer on the next vic\u2019try of the White and Blue.<\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to Tom Breen discuss the history of UConn blue on the UConn360 Podcast:<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-145883-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Color-segment.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Color-segment.mp3\">https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Color-segment.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more about the history of the White and Blue:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advance.uconn.edu\/2000\/000313\/000313hs.htm\"><em>www.advance.uconn.edu\/2000\/<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>For full episodes of the UConn 360 podcast, visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/uconn.edu\/uconn360-podcast\">uconn.edu\/uconn360-podcast<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows UConn&#8217;s official colors are blue and white. 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