Cardinal and gold are the official colors of Iowa State University, located in Ames, Iowa. The school's mascot, Cy, was chosen based on the school's main color, cardinal, since a cyclone mascot would have been difficult to design. A number of other universities use it as well. Cardinal and white are the official colors of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks. Prior to adoption of the Razorback as the mascot, the university's sports teams were known as the Cardinals. Cardinal and black are the official colors of Wesleyan University, and the school's athletic teams are called the Cardinals. Cardinal, gold, and blue are the school colors for Scotch College, Melbourne. Cardinal and blue are the official school colors of California State University, Fresno. Other school colors described as cardinal include those of the University of Arizona, Ball State University, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Chadron State College, Chaminade College Preparatory (Missouri), Chapman University, Fairfield University, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Nicholls State University, New Mexico State University, Oberlin College, Stevens Institute of Technology, Troy University, the University of Southern California, Union University, Willamette University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, City College of San Francisco, Santa Clara University and the combined sports programs of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd and Scripps Colleges (CMS). Sports Cardinal is 1 of 2 primary colors with myrtle a.k.a. green & red for the 21-time premiership winners South Sydney Rabbitohs. Cardinal is the official primary color of baseball's St. Louis Cardinals. Cardinal was formerly one of the colors of the San Francisco 49ers (since reverted to scarlet), along with the color California gold. Cardinal is the official color of American football's Arizona Cardinals (who were formerly in Chicago, then St. Louis). Cardinal is the official color of Marlow Rowing Club in the UK. Cardinal is the official color, and Nickname of Woking FC in the UK. See also List of colors References Shades of red