School colors: blue & gold
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Faculty adoption of blue and gold as college colors in September 1889 may have come in connection with the development of team sports, for this same fall was the first football season. (The colors adopted were those of the State of Delaware, and also of Sweden, from which Delaware's first permanent colonists came.)
From: The University of Delaware: A History, by John A. Munroe |
| Officially adopted in 1913, the Delaware state flag has a buff-colored diamond with the coat of arms, and is surrounded by a background of colonial blue. According to the original designers of the flag, the shades of buff and colonial blue represent the colors of General George Washington's uniform. | 
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