Ironically the answer to the question is in the question itself! The cardinal in "Stanford Cardinal" refers to the color and not the bird. So the answer is cardinal and white.
See: http://gostanford.cstv.com/school-bio/stan-nickname-mascot.html
There is no official mascot at Stanford. we have two unofficial mascots: Stanford tree and Stanford cardinal referring to the color.
the mascot for Stanford university is the Stanford tree and the Stanford cardinal...
Stanford university official name is the cardinal, Which is a color. The tree is an unofficial nickname.
Stanford University adopted the nickname "Cardinal" in 1891, originally referring to the color rather than the bird. The choice was meant to reflect the school's official color, cardinal red. Over time, the nickname has come to represent both the color and the bird, with the university's mascot being the Stanford Tree, which is a representation of the Stanford Band's mascot rather than the cardinal bird itself.
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Stanford's "mascot" is the color Cardinal. The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band's (LSJUMB) mascot is the tree. Each individual selected by the band to be tree builds their own costume using their own interpretation of what the tree should look like-- it has been a pine, but also a palm.
The school color's of Boise State University are orange and blue. Also their school mascot is The Bronco.
Stanford is wrong. It is the Stanford Cardinal, referring to a deep red color. Their mascot is a tree, depicting the Redwood native to the region. The Louisville Cardinals are likely the most popular with the cardinal bird as a mascot.
I think you mean Santa Clara University. The mascot is the Bronco and the colors are red and white. (The person who said Banana Slugs was mistaken - that is the mascot for UC Santa Cruz, a different school entirely)
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John Harvard. I know, hard to believe having a person for a mascot but its true. Their official mascot color is crimson
The Harvard Football team's nickname is the Crimson, as in the dark red crimson color. This is similar to the Stanford Cardinal, which also uses a color as their team name. Also similar to Stanford, which uses a pine tree as its mascot, the Harvard Crimson's mascot is a pilgrim/patriot-looking character.