Early years
Richard C. Stoll was born on March 21, 1876, inCollege
Kentucky State College
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. The next year light yellow was dropped and changed to white.Yale
After his time at Kentucky State College, he entered Yale Law school.References
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* 1876 births 1949 deaths Kentucky Wildcats football players Players of American football from Lexington, Kentucky American judges {{collegefootball-player-stub