A long time ago now I was an undergrad at Wabash and they had a long tradition of fans (not players) wearing candy stripes at games. Goes at LEAST back to the 50s, though I was there in the 80s. IU started with swimming in the 1960s.
At Wabash it might even go back to the founding of the "Sphinx Club" of boosters in 1921.
one old pic:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ7AcMJZ-7OLDNKpVTJFTGtOpqEllk7AQRqhw&s
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@jdb I haven't seen Cap on this site. Tried tagging him and if he is, he's using a different handle. I always liked the guy. Anyone who can be self deprecating is usually a good dude, and he seemed to be both.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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fun fact, the name "Purdue Boilermakers" came from the 1920s when Wabash had beaten Purdue several years in a row at football. Ticked off, Purdue enrolled some burley factory workers from a local boiler plant to beef up their O and D lines. The Indy Star recapped the first victory by Purdue, saying "Purdue's Boilermakers Beat Wabash"
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@openwheel not necessarily the athletes, but the fans . Saw a pic of a PU tailgate and almost all the kids there had striped overalls. Seen them at MIchigan State, Wisconsin, and several others.
They know what's cool. Copying Indiana is cool