(04-06-2018 09:27 AM)thehappyhuskie Wrote:  

(04-06-2018 07:22 AM)Dog Fan Wrote:  [quote='MajorHoople' pid='15232533' dateline='1523015543']
Out of curiosity is black one of NIU's official colors?

Yes, we have 3 official colors: red, black.....and in recent years it seems that white has been added to the mix. White has sort of become the fashionable color du jour.
i'd be more upset at the red, if your looking to get riled up. It used to be garnet.

Officially it was NEVER garnet, Northern Illinois' official colors were Cardinal and Black, and that was cardinal like the clergy not the bird. The last time NIU football had its true school colors was under Bill Mallory and over the years, especially in the 1990s, the cardinal got bastardized into red. At one point in the 1920s, the teams were even referred to as the Cardinals because of the jerseys, but in 1940, a four-man committee of George "Chick" Evans, Harold Taxman, Walter Lorimer and Henry Telman came up with the Huskies nickname and made specific reference to the singular H-U-S-K-I-E, as in Huskie victory, Huskie touchdown, to differentiate it from the word Husky.

As long as we're on the subject of helmets and uniforms, here's the link regarding the ILL-ness' latest try to get attention:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/demetriusbe...15a4f8e1aa