The NCAA forced all colleges to wear dark jerseys at home and light jerseys for away games. For reasons unknown to me, Tech under Homer Rice chose blue for those dark jerseys, even though the more natural choices would have been gold . . . or black, because of the Black Watch. There was considerable criticism then about the choice of blue; nobody understood why it was chosen. The NCAA has since dropped that ridiculous rule, and blue did not make a return, at least for the football team, until TStan pulled up that early 1900s article that he lied about. Dodd NEVER wore dark jerseys of any color for home games. He wore blue jerseys (again no idea why blue) for a few away games, most notably in 1942, filling in for an ailing Alexander, when he took an undefeated Tech team into Athens wearing blue jerseys and got slaughtered. That alone IMO should have been reason enough never to wear blue again, but we did. We certainly never wore solid blue uniforms until Johnson's last team wore them in Detroit for that bowl game. I don't know if CPJ chose them or Tstan chose them, but they were hideous. Later incarnations of that uniform don't look any better, and IMO blue pants look awful too. GOL had the right idea by alternating white jerseys with gold pants and gold jerseys with white pants. Both of those uniforms looked awesome, as one other poster has alluded to.
As far as getting "spun up" over uniforms, when those outside the Tech community see a Tech team take the field, historically, they have seen white and gold. Whether TStan, the clown, or anybody else wants to admit it or not, White and Gold is our brand, and we should stick to it. Marilyn Monroe famously posed for the cover of a Look magazine in 1952 wearing a white sweater with a gold T on it. The photo was also used in the 1953 Blueprint. She also visited the Tech campus and gave an autographed copy of the photo to Dodd.As I said, White and Gold is the Tech brand . . . not blue and anything.
