The Syracuse Orange

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[B]The Syracuse Orange (Off their website)[/B]

[SIZE=2]In June 1872, Syracuse adopted rose pink and pea green as the official colors of the University and its athletic teams. The colors were changed the next year to rose tint and azure, later becoming pink and blue.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=2]After a football field meet at nearby Hamilton College in 1889 which Syracuse won, derisive comments about the victors’ colors led the SU student body to the conclusion that yet another change should be made.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=2]A committee made up of students and faculty members discovered that orange had not been adopted by any college or university as a single color. In 1890 the Alumni Association rendered a unanimous decision and orange has been the sole official color of Syracuse University since that year.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=2]Men’s varsity teams soon became known as the Orange or Orangemen. When women began competing in varsity sports in 1971, they selected the nickname Orangewomen. In 2004, the University made the decision to have all teams, men and women, referred to as the Syracuse Orange, to reflect the original nickname of SU’s teams.[/SIZE]

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The Syracuse PINKMEN!!! :clap: :lmao: :lmao:

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A popular urban legend I heard growing up was that Syracuse picked Orangemen to be derisive towards Irish Catholics. Probably mostly arised because the south side of Binghamton, NY is largely Irish to begin with.

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Actually, there’s a very large Irish population in the area, and some parts of the Cuse still have stone’s-throwers traffic lights (where the red light is on the bottom and the green on the top - for when you get drunk and try to throw rocks at the top light you’ll only break the green and not the red).

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LoL Awesome!

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A popular urban legend I heard growing up was that Syracuse picked Orangemen to be derisive towards Irish Catholics. Probably mostly arised because the south side of Binghamton, NY is largely Irish to begin with.

Some urban legend… Binghamton is an hour away from Syracuse, that’s a stretch to take a shot at an ethnicity especially when Syracuse years ago was generally divided by these reasons (not by law but geographically certain areas were denser with certain ethnicities) and still is. My whole family is from there and I’ve never heard the Binghamton reference.

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Another killer for the Orange insult to Irish Catholics. Maybe it’s an insult to Irish Protestants.
Orange is used by the Irish Protestants, also known as Scotch-Irish because they emigrated from Scotland.
Green is for the Irish Catholics, hence Notre Dame is green.

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[QUOTE=stonecoldken;199855]Another killer for the Orange insult to Irish Catholics. Maybe it’s an insult to Irish Protestants.
Orange is used by the Irish Protestants, also known as Scotch-Irish because they emigrated from Scotland.
Green is for the Irish Catholics, hence Notre Dame is green.[/QUOTE]

What on God’s green Earth are you talking about?

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It was referring to other’s posts.

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I don’t think he wrote it quite right, but somehow I understood it.

I’ve heard the “binghamton legend” but never referring to Catholics in Binghamton, just to other Irish in the Cuse area, city divided etc.

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Green is for the Irish Catholics, hence Notre Dame is green.

FYI…Notre Dame is navy blue and gold.

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FYI..Notre Dame is navy blue and gold.

Just so you know they do wear a green jersey if there is a significant game…although everytime they wear it they lose.

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I always thought “Orange” should be the name of a team from Florifa or California. Ok folks, on your feet and cheer for YOUR FLORIDA ORANGES.

I can think of one sorta big game Notre Dame won when their opponent was wearing green.

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[QUOTE=ebncrdr49er;199967]Just so you know they do wear a green jersey if there is a significant game…although everytime they wear it they lose.[/QUOTE]

It’s not the green jerseys, ND just can’t win significant games.

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Just so you know they do wear a green jersey if there is a significant game...although everytime they wear it they lose.

Thanks for the obvious update…it still isn’t a school color.

We used to wear gold uniforms for big games. Our colors are still gren and white.

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Thanks for the obvious update...it still isn't a school color.

We used to wear gold uniforms for big games. Our colors are still gren and white.


I still don’t get that. Why would a school utilize a color so much and not recognize it as a school color?

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Why do almost all the 49er teams wear black, it’s not a school color. Sometimes teams do stupid things and the administrations don’t stop them (that being said, Notre Dame’s green jerseys are sweet, not like randomly wearing black to be trendy Duke).

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I actually like Duke’s black jerseys… just looks good with the blue, trendy or not it works. Wanna talk about bad with black, check out the Celtics’ black jerseys, not too appealing.

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Why do almost all the 49er teams wear black, it's not a school color. Sometimes teams do stupid things and the administrations don't stop them (that being said, Notre Dame's green jerseys are sweet, not like randomly wearing black to be trendy Duke).

We came out in black uniforms a few years back for one game and got killed. We never wore them again. Anyone remember which team drilled us?

I kind of liked when we were gold once in a while.

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[QUOTE=ninermikeg;200051]We came out in black uniforms a few years back for one game and got killed. We never wore them again. Anyone remember which team drilled us?

I kind of liked when we were gold once in a while.[/QUOTE]

There was actually an entire season a few years ago when we always wore black on the road.