 The Rutgers student publication "Targum" (which would become the "Daily Targum") proposed that scarlet be adopted in May 1869, claiming that it was a striking color and because scarlet ribbon was easily obtained.During the first intercollegiate football game with Princeton on November 6, 1869, the players from Rutgers wore scarlet-colored turbans and handkerchiefs to distinguish them as a team from the Princeton players.The Board of Trustees officially made scarlet the school color in 1900.