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Aug 31Liked by Football Archaeology

This is super interesting. The earliest I can find is when the Winnipeg Jets had an official White Out in 1987 during a playoff game. Sorry Penn State.

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I've since found earlier examples of student sections wearing all white, such as the 1904 Cal-Stanford game.

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Sep 18, 2023Liked by Football Archaeology

Interesting story. I do have one question: did Texas refer to their dressing in white as a "whiteout?" If not, perhaps Penn State invented the expression for fans dressing all in white. It seems that many schools have copied that idea since 2004. Just last week Illinois had an orange-out against Penn State. It did not work.

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To my knowledge, Texas never referred to the all-white clothing as a whiteout. The earliest reference I've found of whiteout in the context of fans of a team wearing all white for a game came in 1990, when the Tri-City Americans of the Western Hockey League (a major junior league) used the term for their 11/21/90 game with Victoria.

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