Waratah Mayfield is a rugby league club based in the Newcastle , New South Wales region of Australia.
10-703: Known as The Cheetahs and wearing Maroon and Gold , they were a member of the First Grade Newcastle Rugby League until 2004 and now compete in Newcastle & Hunter Rugby League . Waratah Mayfield RLFC were founded in 1927 and entered the Newcastle Rugby League in 1928. Waratah were successful right from the start in the Newcastle First Grade in only their second year losing the grand final in
20-502: A brownish-red. Similarly, Dictionary.com defines maroon as a dark brownish-red. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes maroon as "a brownish- crimson or claret colour," while the Merriam-Webster online dictionary simply defines it as a dark red. In the sRGB color model for additive color representation, the web color called maroon is created by turning down the brightness of pure red to about one half. It
30-617: A computer. Displayed in the adjacent table is the web color dark red . UP Maroon is the shade used by the University of the Philippines as its primary color. Rose (color) Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel , also known as the RGB color wheel , on which it is at hue angle of 330 degrees. Rose is one of the tertiary colors on
40-593: A result, many have received the nickname "Maroons." The color designated as maroon in Crayola crayons since 1958 (when it was renamed from dark red ) is a bright medium shade of maroon halfway between brown and rose . Displayed in the adjacent table is the color rich maroon , i.e. maroon as defined in the X11 color names , which is much brighter and more toned toward rose than the HTML/CSS maroon shown above. See
50-642: Is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word marron , or chestnut . "Marron" is also one of the French translations for "brown". Terms describing interchangeable shades, with overlapping RGB ranges, include burgundy, claret, mulberry and crimson. Different dictionaries define maroon differently. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines maroon as a dark reddish-purple color while its "American Dictionary" section defines maroon as dark brown-red. Lexico online dictionary defines maroon as
60-864: Is also noted that maroon is the complement of the web color called teal . Maroon is French marron (" chestnut "), itself from the Italian marrone that means both chestnut and brown (but the color maroon in Italian is granata and in French is grenat ), from the medieval Greek maraon . The first recorded use of maroon as a color name in English was in 1789. Many universities, colleges, high schools and other educational institutions have maroon as one of their school colors . Popular combinations include maroon and white, maroon and grey, maroon and gold, and maroon and blue. Sports teams often use maroon as one of their identifying colors, as
70-460: The HSV (RGB) color wheel. The complementary color of rose is spring green . Sometimes rose is quoted instead as the web-safe color FF00CC, which is closer to magenta than to red, corresponding to a hue angle near 320 degrees, or the web-safe color FF0077, which is closer to red than magenta, corresponding to a hue angle of about 340 degrees. The first recorded use of rose as a color name in English
80-474: The chart Color name clashes in the X11 color names article to see those colors that are different in HTML/CSS and X11. Displayed at right is the color mystic maroon , one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Silver Swirls, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 1990. Although this is supposed to be a metallic color , there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on
90-600: The grand final 20–14. Leaner times were ahead for Waratah Mayfield, and in 2004 the club suffering from financial hardships and struggling to recruit enough players to take part in the Newcastle rugby league they were forced to withdraw from all senior competitions. Today the club continues in junior rugby league competitions and in the Newcastle & Hunter Rugby League competition. Maroon (color) Maroon ( US / UK / m ə ˈ r uː n / mə- ROON , Australia / m ə ˈ r oʊ n / mə- ROHN )
100-402: The years 1929, 1933 and 1934, before finally tasting glory in 1936 when they beat Northern Suburbs in the grand final, the team they lost to in 1929. In 1990, Waratah-Mayfield ended a 38-year drought when they defeated Lakes United 17–14 to win the Newcastle premiership. The next premiership came in 2000 when Waratah Mayfield faced off against Lakes United and again claimed victory taking out
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