[chrisk]

Sporting Green front page article on Stanford and Shaw. Shaw’s non responsive response to reporters, recruiting disadvantages, underperforming recruits, etc. Shaw probably reading it with his little shit eating grin on.

Curious about the Chron's the use of green paper for Sports section of the newspaper.  Anybody knows the history behind this?

The green paper started in the early 1900’s as a tool in the circulation wars of those days. They stopped using actual green paper about 50 years ago, because of costs and the new use of color pictures. For years, they just put a splash on green of the first sports page. About 20 years ago, with modern color printing technology, they used green ink to return the first sports page to green.

(In the old days, the pink section of the Chronicle was printed on pink paper.

[chrisk]

Sporting Green front page article on Stanford and Shaw. Shaw’s non responsive response to reporters, recruiting disadvantages, underperforming recruits, etc. Shaw probably reading it with his little shit eating grin on.

Curious about the Chron's the use of green paper for Sports section of the newspaper.  Anybody knows the history behind this?

The green paper started in the early 1900’s as a tool in the circulation wars of those days. They stopped using actual green paper about 50 years ago, because of costs and the new use of color pictures. For years, they just put a splash on green of the first sports page. About 20 years ago, with modern color printing technology, they used green ink to return the first sports page to green.

(In the old days, the pink section of the Chronicle was printed on pink paper.