With that experience in mind, I set out to write a uniform post. Several hours later I had gone through the MNHS archives and was still without a good focus for today’s post. Transition. Finally I happened upon a strange occurance back when the University of Chicago was in the Big Ten.
Before 1932 the Gophers wore maroon jerseys, which happened to be a problem as the University of Chicago are literally called the Maroons. As you could imagine a maroon vs maroon game would lead to some difficulties both for the players and spectators. And some strange uniform solutions came out of it.