 In 1876, Georgetown College Boat Club, the school's rowing team, adopted blue, from the uniform of the Union Army, and gray, from the uniforms of the Confederate States military forces, as their team colors in order to signify the peaceful unity between students from the North and those from the South.Students at Georgetown Visitation wove the first blue and gray uniforms for the team.Georgetown's motto "Utraque Unum", "both into one," though used before the war, helped capture the unity spirit.