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Cotton Bowl article with nice ref to Doak and SMU

Postby PK » Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:49 pm

"And it started with Doak Walker and SMU, all those years ago."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... 5b33d.html
SMU's first president, Robert S. Hyer, selected Harvard Crimson and Yale Blue as SMU's colors to symbolize SMU's high academic standards. We are one of the few Universities to have school colors with real meaning...and we just blow them off.
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Postby jtstang » Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:53 pm

What colors did Doak wear on his uniform PK?
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Postby MrMustang1965 » Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:55 pm

Guess things are REALLY slow when things are repeated on the board. ;)

http://www.ponyfans.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=36932

jtstang wrote:What colors did Doak wear on his uniform PK?



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Postby ponyboy » Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:56 pm

jtstang wrote:What colors did Doak wear on his uniform PK?


It was all black and white back then.
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Postby jtstang » Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:58 pm

Yes but was it Harvard Black and Yale White?
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Postby ALEX LIFESON » Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:08 pm

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Postby PK » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:41 pm

MrMustang1965 wrote:Guess things are REALLY slow when things are repeated on the board. ;)

http://www.ponyfans.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=36932

jtstang wrote:What colors did Doak wear on his uniform PK?



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Interesting...I actually looked to see if it had been posted before I made my post, but didn't see it...oh well, didn't get much attention either way.

BTW jt...looks like Harvard crimmson. 8)
SMU's first president, Robert S. Hyer, selected Harvard Crimson and Yale Blue as SMU's colors to symbolize SMU's high academic standards. We are one of the few Universities to have school colors with real meaning...and we just blow them off.
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Postby jtstang » Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:34 am

No Yale Blue?? Blasphemy!!
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