What two colours were the stripes of Newcastle United's original football kit, before they changed it in 1904 to avoid confusion with another nearby football club?
Newcastle East End F.C. as "Newcastle United Football Club Co. Ltd." until 6 September 1895. The original and most common colours of the club was red shirts, with white shorts and black socks. Despite the fact that this was the kit they first wore and indeed the kit originally passed on to Newcastle United after the merger, a second kit has gained more attention in some sources. The second kit was a brief change in colours during the mid-1880s, this kit was made up of a red and white striped shirt, with navy shorts and black socks. It is considered highly ironic in the
St Kilda Football Club the latter to be re-listed as a rookie. The original colours of the St Kilda Football Club are red, white and black. In the club's early years, from 1873 to 1896, the players wore a thinly striped red, white and black jumper; the stripes were later widened. In 1915, St Kilda changed its colours to red, yellow and black, to avoid playing in the colours of the German Empire's flag during a war against that country; in honour of allied power Belgium, they played in its flag colours for the remainder of the First World War. In 1923 the club