I saw this on the ACC site..never knew the purple was called

This may help. It seems if Clemson had official school colors in the beginning they were red and blue as these colors appeared on diplomas until Riggs came over from Auburn to start a football program at Clemson. Riggs brought with him from Auburn the name tigers and a few worn and faded Auburn uniforms for the new Clemson team to practice in. The Auburn blue had faded over several years of use and had a slight purple tinge. Riggs and the team liked the purple and took the orange and purple to be team colors. The purple was first called Northwest Purple. Purple dyes on the material early uniforms were made of has a tendency of fading when washed so over the years more and more of bluish tent was added to counter the fading tendency. Hence the name regalia purple. By the way the school adopted the teams colors as diplomas started appearing with orange and purple when the football team was formed.

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Our colors were Burnt Orange and Northwestern Purple

Mar 7, 2017, 10:46 PM

until somewhere between 2005-2009, when they became Clemson Orange, Regalia (purple), and Fort Mill (white).

My father, who attended Clemson when Banks McFadden was a student there, always told me that when he was a boy Clemson's football team wore purple and gold. They started wearing orange and purple at some point after that. My earliest memories of Clemson football are from the early/mid 60s, and they definitely wore orange jerseys with either purple numbers, or white numbers with purple trim. Basketball used Orange and purple as well. In the late 60s or early 70s, maybe when Hootie Ingram took over for Frank Howard, purple was used less and less and orange and white became the main colors. At some point in mid/late eighties navy blue worked it's way into the trim and we even wore basketball uniforms that were primarily blue for a few years during that stretch. Ken Hatfield brought back the purple in the early nineties, and the blue went away altogether a few years later as far as I can remember.

Throughout my lifetime, I believe our official primary colors have always been some combination of burnt orange or Clemson orange with some form of purple (Northwestern/Regalia), and at times has included some form of white. A dark/navy blue may have been an official alternate color at some point as well.

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Barker changed the color several years ago***

Re: I saw this on the ACC site..never knew the purple was called

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Re: I saw this on the ACC site..never knew the purple was called

The purple has had an interesting evolution. For many years not existing. A Mandela Effect

Take a look at your degree for the purple

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Yep and bball had orange and navy in the late 90s

Never been navy regardless of what color shirts they make.***

the navy was still there in the late 90s

Now that you mention it, I had Clemson gear from the

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Re: I saw this on the ACC site..never knew the purple was called

Re: I saw this on the ACC site..never knew the purple was called

Clemson Color Palette

Innovation (primary) and Blue Ridge (shutters)

Our colors were Burnt Orange and Northwestern Purple

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