[CompSci87]

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.

I still have one of the old Saturday's Chron on Big Game Day. All green and featured Bill Leiser's BG chronology. He leaned a bit toward Stanford amid a staff who bled Blue. Probably eight pages of BG facts and features. It was the sports event of the year in the Bay Area. Now hardly anybody cares.

FWIW, the Milwaukee Journal used to have a "Green Sheet" printed on green paper. It carried the comics, a few columns such as local humor ("Slightly Kloss Eyed" by Gerald Kloss) and advice (Mrs. Griggs was Milwaukee's answer to Dear Abby), crossword puzzle, etc. Always the first section a kid wanted to look at.

[CompSci87]

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.

I still have one of the old Saturday's Chron on Big Game Day. All green and featured Bill Leiser's BG chronology. He leaned a bit toward Stanford amid a staff who bled Blue. Probably eight pages of BG facts and features. It was the sports event of the year in the Bay Area. Now hardly anybody cares.

FWIW, the Milwaukee Journal used to have a "Green Sheet" printed on green paper. It carried the comics, a few columns such as local humor ("Slightly Kloss Eyed" by Gerald Kloss) and advice (Mrs. Griggs was Milwaukee's answer to Dear Abby), crossword puzzle, etc. Always the first section a kid wanted to look at.