Colours and Crest
| Waterford's original jersey |
Waterford's present colours are white and blue. Both inter-county teams play in white shirts, with blue trim along with blue shorts and blue socks. Prior to 2004, the county wore white shorts. The present jerseys are manufactured by local Waterford company, Azzurri Sportswear. O'Neills previously made the jersey up to 2002. Waterford hurling & football are presently sponsored by 3, and have been since 2010.
While today's jersey is white with blue trim, Waterford's jersey was originally Royal Blue and White, with white shorts and blue socks. The change to today's jersey was made in 1936. Today, Waterford uses a blue jersey as its second jersey in case of a clash of colours.
The present crest was introduced in 2009 and features three viking longboats from the crest of Waterford City, and a representation of the round tower in Ardmore. The crest introduced in 2009 was a further refinement of a crest introduced in 2003. The new crest replaced the original crest of Waterford City. The new crest was introduced as the Waterford GAA board were unable to copyright the old one due to it being a civil crest.
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Famous quotes containing the words colours and, colours and/or crest:
“I should need
Colours and words that are unknown to man,
To paint the visionary dreariness”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“In a borealic iceberg came Victoria; she
Knew Prince Albert’s tall memorial took the colours of the floreal
And the borealic iceberg;”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
“The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)