Occupation: | Judge, attorney | ||||||||
Birth Date: | 21 March 1876 | ||||||||
Birth Place: | Lexington, Kentucky | ||||||||
Death Place: | Lexington, Kentucky | ||||||||
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Richard Charles Stoll (March 21, 1876 - June 26, 1949) was a judge and prominent alumnus of the University of Kentucky (then known as Kentucky State College).[1] He is the namesake of Stoll Field,[2] and the origin for the school's color scheme.[1]
Richard C. Stoll was born on March 21, 1876, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Richard P. and Elvina Stoll.[1]
Stoll was a varsity letterman for the Kentucky Wildcats football team. The 1891 team's colors were blue and light yellow, decided before the Centre - Kentucky game on December 19. A student asked "What color blue?" and Stoll pulled off his necktie, and held it up. This is still held as the origin of Kentucky's shade of blue.[3] The next year light yellow was dropped and changed to white.[4]
After his time at Kentucky State College, he entered Yale Law school.[1]