Editing Sporting colours (section)

==History==
University colours were first introduced in the second [[University Boat Race]] between Oxford and Cambridge in 1836.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thefield.co.uk/country-house/oxbridge-blue-21962|title=Oxbridge Blue. How to win the varsity match.|work=The Field |date= 7 April 2015|accessdate=11 June 2019}}</ref> Durham adopted [[Palatinate (colour)|palatinate purple]] for its [[Academic dress of Durham University|degree hoods]] at about the same time. At Cambridge, teams would seek permission of the boat club to use their  blue colour; by the 1860s the established sports with full blue status were rowing, cricket and athletics. In 1884, the rugby and football clubs awarded themselves blues following their varsity matches (against Oxford), leading to a debate at the [[Cambridge Union]] that was decisively lost by the boat club. The hockey club also gained full blue status (in 1894) before the system was formalised by the establishment of the blues committee in 1912.<ref name=cam>{{cite web|url=http://www.sport.cam.ac.uk/documents/en/his/history.pdf |title=Blues and the Blues Committee: Some historical notes |publisher=Cambridge University Blues Committee |author=Christopher Thorne |date=10 July 1996 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716024827/http://www.sport.cam.ac.uk/documents/en/his/history.pdf |archive-date=16 July 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref>
The award of Palatinates for sports at Durham dates to at least 1883, when the cricket "Eleven" were permitted to wear the "university coat" (i.e. blazer) of palatinate purple rather than the claret coat of the club,<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WAoIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA108|journal=Durham University Journal|publisher=Durham University|volume=5|issue=9|page=108|date=26 May 1883|title=Cricket}}</ref> and the award of both Palatinates and half Palatinates was well established by the end of the century.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1VcjAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA83|journal=Durham University Journal|publisher=Durham University|volume=13|issue=4|page=83|date=14 May 1898|title=The Palatinate}}</ref> Manchester adopted maroon in 1905.<ref name=Manchester>{{cite web|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-aua|title=University of Manchester, Athletic Union Archive|publisher=Jisc|work=Archives Hub|accessdate=11 June 2019}}</ref> Trinity College Dublin adopted Pink in 1950.<ref name=Trinity>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/Sport/student-sport/awards/|title= Trinity College Dublin Sports Awards|publisher=TCD|work=Archives Hub|accessdate=21 April 2021}}</ref>