Thanks for sharing. As the original poster from the Class of '88, I thought this article was particularly interesting.
Thanks for sharing. As the original poster from the Class of '88, I thought this article was particularly interesting.
Rich
"Failure is Not a Destination"
Coach K on the Dan Patrick Show, December 22, 2016
We've seen this debate tons here, as the article noted, but this is the first time I've ever seen this.
That is absolutely priceless.The Carolina side wore light-blue uniforms for the first time in history, and Trinity players wore an approximation of Yale blue—a grayish dark blue—chosen by the student body to honor their coach and president. According to The Trinity Archive, a cheer arose among the Trinity faithful at the game's close (Trinity won, 16-0), in answer to the Carolina cheer, which "literally woke Raleigh up" in the morning before the game. Carolina fans chanted:
The Trinity fans, in a move that presaged the cheeky chants of Cameron, answered:Rah! Rah! Rah!
For the white and blue!
Hoop la! Hoop la!
N.C.U.
Rah! Rah! Rah!
For the deep dark blue!
Hoop la! Hoop la!
We beat [you].
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
oft discussed here. the Duke Alumni mag march-april issue has this as the cover story. posts from DBR are included in the article.
the "official" Duke blue is prussian blue PMS 287 which is decently dark, but the Nike influence has bball uni's closer to royal.
campus signage is PMS 2767C which is designated as Duke University Dark Blue and is nicely dark and closer to MY understanding of Duke blue.
Go Duke!
PMS287 doesn't work well with black. With a quick glance it looks like black. What little vividness 287 has is lost when translated to four color process printing.
Duke Sports tends to go with PMS286 when printing in two colors (usually in combination with black).
I'm not up on the history of the blue in the basketball uniforms. PMS286 is closer to today's uniforms than PMS287.
“On Sept. 23, 1965, the Executive Committee of Duke's Board of Trustees adopted "Prussian Blue" as Duke's official color. There is no other known, official action on the matter of school colors.”
https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/...cles/duke-blue
I believe this is the "correct" Duke blue.
https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/287-C
I like this color....darker than the royal blue that we now see on some Duke uniforms but a shade or two lighter than a midnight or navy blue (the "Yale" color and my high school's color).
What was the name of the paint GM used on the "Blue Devil" 'vette?
The article says white is not a school color and there is no official document noting that. I've heard this argument before, but someone should tell all of the writers of Duke's media guides, which list Duke's colors as Duke Blue and white.
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Mike Stein
Trinity '97, Tent #1 '97
Tampa
I'm getting page not found on the OP link.
Just so this lives in another place forever on the Web.
Duke Blue:
Technical Details
Duke Blue is registered as number 287 in the Pantone® Color Matching System.
Colors in the range of Pantone® numbers 283 to 289 are used for Duke Blue. The reason for the range of numbers relates to differences in printed materials, computer applications and textiles.
The Pantone® Process Color Imaging Guide formula for Duke Blue is 100% Cyan + 69% Magenta + 0% Yellow + 11.5% Black.
In a web color palette, Duke Blue is hexadecimal code 001A57; RGB 0,0,156; Hue=160, Saturation=240, Brightness=73.
While Knight was the pres when the committee made its recommendation, it was Dr Hart who started the committee to search for a new doctoral robe color. My understanding is he was looking for a "bright navy".
This backdoor link is working, but ugly:
http://dukemagazine.duke.edu/issues/030410/blue1.html
-jk
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
One of the key quotes from the article shown below. Timeframe was 2009:
These days, you're most likely to see Duke blue in four broad areas: athletic uniforms, licensed products and apparel, campus signage, and publications and promotional materials. In 2009, Duke's athletics department signed a contract with Nike Inc., giving the apparel giant exclusive rights to supply all twenty-six varsity teams with uniforms, shoes, and other equipment. Before each season, a Nike representative contacts a team's coach to present various options for the look of that season's gear. Nike's designers determine the colors of the uniforms, although coaches sign off on them.
Before the Nike contract was signed, each coach ordered from his or her own manufacturer, and some of those agreements will remain in place for the next two years. As a result, the blue of the uniforms worn by this year's field hockey team, for example, supplied by Under Armour Inc., is quite different from the blue of this year's basketball jersey, supplied by Nike. One benefit of the new contract is that all athletic uniforms will be a standard Duke blue—albeit one closer to royal than PMS 287.
Another key quote from the article. Thanks much to -jk. This article cleared up a lot of questions I had on why the colors have changed over the years.
Craig notes a marked shift in popularity between the darker Duke blue, which is closer to navy, and the lighter Duke blue, which is closer to royal. Through the 1980s and into the mid-1990s, Duke Stores was selling much more of the dark blue than the light. Then the men's basketball team signed with Nike for the 1994 season. Nike introduced the royal-blue shade to the uniforms, and Duke consumers soon made the switch. Royal has been the stores' best-selling blue ever since.
Here is a cleaner link to the Duke Magazine article: http://dukemagazine.duke.edu/article/true-blue
My favorite quote is this one, considering I was that '88 alum:
But one of the DBR's message boards was alive with debate over a topic that had nothing to do with the game—one that, over the years, has aroused curiosity and, at times, triggered heated debate among Duke students, alumni, visitors, and fans: What color, exactly, is Duke blue? An alumnus from the Class of '88 wondered: "Was the school's color always royal blue?" He recalled that the uniforms were darker in the past. "Was this a gradual shift? Was there a particular year when the color became lighter or was that a gradual migration?"
Here is the original thread from February 2009 -- http://forums.dukebasketballreport.c...lor+royal+blue
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Rich
"Failure is Not a Destination"
Coach K on the Dan Patrick Show, December 22, 2016