School Colors
The UCLA athletic teams' colors are True Blue and Gold. In the early days of the school, UCLA had the same colors as the University of California, Berkeley; Yale blue and gold.
When football coach Red Sanders came to UCLA for the 1949 season he redesigned the football uniforms. The Yale blue was changed to a lighter shade of blue. Sanders figured that the baby blue would look better on the field and in film. He would dub the baby blue uniform "Powderkeg blue", powder blue with an explosive kick. For the 1954 football season, Sanders added a gold loop on the shoulders, the UCLA Stripe.
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