Richard Charles Stoll (March 21, 1876 – June 26, 1949) was a judge and prominent alumnus of the
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a Public University, public Land-grant University, land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentu ...
(then known as Kentucky State College).
He is the namesake of
Stoll Field
Stoll Field/McLean Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It was the home of the University of Kentucky Wildcats football team. The field has been in use since 1880, but the concrete stands were opened in Oc ...
, and the origin for the school's color scheme.
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Early years
Richard C. Stoll was born on March 21, 1876, in Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is a city in Kentucky, United States that is the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, Fayette County. By population, it is the List of cities in Kentucky, second-largest city in Kentucky and List of United States cities by popul ...
, to Richard P. and Elvina Stoll.[
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College
Kentucky State College
Stoll was a varsity letterman for the Kentucky Wildcats football
The Kentucky Wildcats football program represents the University of Kentucky in the sport of American football. The Wildcats compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern D ...
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.[
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1876 births
1949 deaths
Kentucky Wildcats football players
Players of American football from Lexington, Kentucky
American judges
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