These Colors Have Always Run…and Passed…and Kicked

Posted by Dave McKenna on Feb. 19, 2008, at 1:47 pm

For the few souls still debating whether Jim Zorn’s misremembering of his team’s garb as “maroon and black….and yellow!” was venial or mortal, here’s the lede of a story that ran in the Washington Post on Sept. 5, 1937, meaning the real color scheme was spelled out in the first four words of the very first game-day preview the paper ever ran about the Washington Redskins:

“The Burgundy and Gold colors of the Washington Redskins, local representatives in the National Professional Football League, will be unfurled this afternoon when the 1936 champions journey to Frederick, Md., for their first game of the season.”

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2 Responses to “These Colors Have Always Run…and Passed…and Kicked”

John Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
A better question is who were they playing in Fredneck?
Dave McKenna Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
John:
Fab question! The Washington Redskins traveled that day to McCurdy Field in Frederick to face the American Legion All Stars, an ad hoc assemblage described in the story as “a composite group of St. Mary’s Celtics and Washington Pros.”

Far as I can tell, the Celtics and Pros were two local semi-pro football clubs — they played each other at least once at Griffith Stadium, in 1936.