December 19th: On this date...

... in 1891, prior to a football game with Centre College, students of your University of Kentucky Wildcats adopted its school colors......................Blue and...........Yellow? The shade of Blue of was decided on when a student asked “What color blue?” A football letterman, Richard C. Stoll, then took off his necktie and raised it into the air. The particular shade of blue on Stoll’s necktie was then adopted as the school’s official color. The yellow part of the school color was a light yellow and lasted less than a year. The second color (White) was adopted in 1892 and has stayed ever since. Blue-White rolls off the tongue a bit better than Blue-Yellow you have to admit.

Big Blue Booyah on Tom Leach