The Maroons were born 100 years ago. In 1907-08, Roanoke's athletic competition was mostly intramural at the time. The student-run baseball team of 1907 needed new uniforms and couldn't find any available in the Roanoke's colors of blue and gold (yes, Roanoke's old colors and current academic colors are blue and gold). But they did find Maroon uniforms. Students thought the Maroon uniforms were funny and the Brackety Ack started to call the team the "Maroon and Grays." Then a few years later, basketball jumped on the Maroon bandwagon and began to compete as the Maroons in 1911. A few years after that, the college administration officially adopted Maroon and Gray as the college's athletic colors. Maroon eventually won over the drab Gray and the Maroon moniker has stuck with all Roanoke College teams since!

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