Black Is the New Green

The football team has added black and gray to its family of uniform choices. Green and white have long been the team’s colors, but the introduction of new hues for jerseys, pants and helmets brings the total possible color combinations to 27, the most in the Ivy League, according to director of football operations Joey McIntyre. A Lone Pine patch also adorns both shoulders of all the jerseys. The gray, he notes, evokes the granite of New Hampshire. “These changes show we’re not stuck in our ways, but without losing our tradition,” says McIntyre. “The new looks offer us some recruiting value and have already generated buzz on social media”—not to mention the alumni circuit traveled by coach Buddy Teevens ’79. “The response has been lots of excitement,” says McIntyre. Nike rep John Gallagher ’12, a former Big Green tight end, worked with the team to make the changes happen during the past several months.