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Richmond players originally wore workmen’s navy blue with a yellow and black sash when the club formed in 1885.
It adopted black and yellow vertical stripes from 1887.
One thoery suggests the team took its colours from the Richmond Cricket Club.
Kevin Bartlett in 1973. The famous yellow sash on the Richmond jumper was widened for the 1975 season,
when colour television was introduced to Australia. Picture News Corp Australia
From the 1890s to around 1905 the team wore black and yellow Geelong-style hoops and vertical stripes in different seasons, and were known by some as the Wasps.
North Melbourne and Richmond in a VFA match in 1903.
Both teams are wearing vertical stripes in their traditional colours. Picture: News Corp Australia
Between 1910 and 1913, the team wore a black jumper with a single yellow hoop before swapping it for a yellow sash in 1914.
Richmond players originally wore workmen’s navy blue with a yellow and black sash when the club formed in 1885.
It adopted black and yellow vertical stripes from 1887.
One thoery suggests the team took its colours from the Richmond Cricket Club.
Kevin Bartlett in 1973. The famous yellow sash on the Richmond jumper was widened for the 1975 season,
when colour television was introduced to Australia. Picture News Corp Australia
From the 1890s to around 1905 the team wore black and yellow Geelong-style hoops and vertical stripes in different seasons, and were known by some as the Wasps.
North Melbourne and Richmond in a VFA match in 1903.
Both teams are wearing vertical stripes in their traditional colours. Picture: News Corp Australia
Between 1910 and 1913, the team wore a black jumper with a single yellow hoop before swapping it for a yellow sash in 1914.
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