It's true that you'll rarely find a correspondence between a college team's mascot and its colors. Usually, a team's colors are chosen for other reasons than "what are the colors of the animal that we've chose as our mascot?" For example, the City of Pittsburgh's colors are black and gold, so Pitt's colors were chosen as a variation on that, blue and gold. Some schools had colors before mascots. The Ivy teams were originally identified by their colors, and still are to some extent. Hence the plethora of color names in the Ivies: Harvard Crimson, Cornell Big Red, Dartmouth Big Green, Brown...well, it's the Bruins. Princeton uses Tigers to match its distinctive colors. There are exceptions to any sort of theory you try to propose, unfortunately. I don't really know what the colors are of Delaware (the Fighting Blue Hens), but I can guess. Are Colby's colors white (White Mules)? Minnesota definitely does have a correspondence. A gopher looks like a gold squirrel, sort of. Throw in a whole bunch of students of Scandanavian descent and you've got "Golden Gophers". (I always kinda liked thinking that the mascot name was chosen because there are so many blondes at the UofM!). Enough of my blabbering. Gophers, Gophers, GO BIG GOLD!!! -Martin