Oxford Blue (colour): Difference between revisions

Oxford Blue stems from the University of Oxford's combined-colleges (whole-university) leading sport teams, thus including [[Oxford Blue]]s (first sides) and Half-Blues (second sides). In UK rowing, blades consisting only of that colour designateare thoseused only by these two sides. However it is ''one''used ofin thecombination bladewith other colours on the blades of Ardingly, Bristol Ariel, [[City of Oxford Rowing Club|City of Oxford]], Isle of Ely, Sudbury, Torquay, and [[Hatfield College, Durham#Hatfield College Boat Club|Hatfield College (Durham)]] clubs, [[Dragon School]] (Oxford), and asby tovarious Oxford colleges, most notably: [[Oriel College, Oxford|Oriel]] and [[Green Templeton College, Oxford|Green Templeton]].<ref>[https://www.britishrowing.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Handbook-2020-v2-PJI-Page-57-Removed-compressed.pdf ''The Umpires' Handbook''] British Rowing, 2020: at pages 43 to 53.</ref> The colour (or a very close variant said to be the same) is used by the [[Toronto Argonauts]] of the Canadian Football League; [[Wycombe Wanderers F.C.]]; and universities commonly known as [[University of Toronto|Toronto]],;<ref>{{Cite web|title=Colors + Fonts - U of T Trademark Licensing|url=https://trademarks.utoronto.ca/colors-fonts/|access-date=2020-08-02|website=trademarks.utoronto.ca}}</ref> [[Pennsylvania State University|Penn State]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/d/r/drs18/Using_the_Mark.pdf/ |title=Background about Penn State's Visual Identity - Visual Identity |publisher=psu.edu |access-date=2015-08-31}}</ref> [[Georgetown University|Georgetown]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://visualidentity.georgetown.edu/colors/ |title=Primary and Secondary Colors - Visual Identity |publisher=Visualidentity.georgetown.edu |access-date=2013-12-24}}</ref> [[Michigan Wolverines|Michigan (as to many athletics teams)]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.logos.umich.edu/print.html |title=The University of Michigan Brand &#124; Global Marketing & Communications |publisher=Logos.umich.edu |access-date=2013-12-24}}</ref> and [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://brand.berkeley.edu/colors/|title=Color • Brand Guidelines|website=brand.berkeley.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-07}}</ref>

The colour was originally chosen by [[Charles Wordsworth]] and [[Thomas Garnier (Dean of Lincoln)|Thomas Garnier]], two members of the [[The Boat Race 1829|1829 Boat Race]] crew using "the [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]] [[Guernsey (clothing)|guernsey]] as our pattern (four of the crew being Christ Church men), only with a broader and darker blue, instead of black stripe. Hence the origin of the 'Dark Blues'."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wordsworth|first1=Charles|title=The annals of my early life|date=1891|publisher=Longmans|location=London|page=[60|url=https://archive.org/details/annalsmyearlyli01wordgoog/page/n70 60]|url=https:n80/mode/archive.org/details/annalsmyearlyli01wordgoog2up}}</ref> The colour itself is said to have been borrowed from [[Harrow School|Harrow]] Blue, whichas Charles Wordsworth and [[Charles Merivale]], the creators of [[The Boat Race]], attended Harrow School. Similarly, [[Cambridge Blue (colour)|Cambridge Blue]] is said to have derived from [[Eton blue]].