This also calls into question the ranking of Uga above Bevo.
A bulldog is a good mascot, but what's been done to bulldogs through inbreeding is sad.
Posted on 08/12/2019 9:08:46 AM PDT by C19fan
Whether they are real-life animals or fake inanimate objects, mascots have become engrained in college football culture. In honor of the 150th anniversary of college football, herewith an all-time ranking of the best mascots in the sport.
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Best SI commercial of all time: The Oregon Duck is working on his computer in the SI offices, hears ducks quacking, leans back in his office chair, looks out the window at a duck pond, and sighs.
Whittier College is the Poets, and their mascot is Johnny Poet, who wears a tricorn hat and cleats on his shoes while carrying a huge book under his left arm and a giant fountain pen in his right hand.
I hated that Hawk doing figure eights on the floor of the Palestra in the ‘60s!
Go Big Red! Go ‘Tops!
You'd think....but its cardinal the color, not the bird. Cardinal is a shade of red, thus a Redwood Tree as the mascot.
This also calls into question the ranking of Uga above Bevo.
A bulldog is a good mascot, but what's been done to bulldogs through inbreeding is sad.
Some school has the Gooeyducks.
I have actually never seen one.
VMI’s mascot is a kangaroo
“My bad, Long Beach State Dirt Bags.”
Dirtbags are used for baseball only and there has never been a mascot.
There is no mascot for Long Beach State since Pete the Prospector and the nickname 49ers were retired for being racist.
Thanks for the info. I was watching a baseball game and saw the name dirt bag.
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The students, faculty and staff voted to call themselves the Sharks. But the changeover is going to be expensive. For one thing, they will have to get rid of the statue of 49'er Pete, which will probably cost tens of thousands of dollars.
ASU's theme song Maroon and Gold was composed by Felix McKernan, the band director at Occidental College when I attended there and played the baritone horn in the band. Although the tune has a ragtime beat and sounds as though it antedates World War I, McKernan composed it in the 1940's. I was not aware of his opus until long after he passed away in the late 1970's.
In 1971, when I sought to bring a conservative speaker onto the campus, McKernan provided me with the required faculty sponsorship, and the speaker, Charlie Smith, an erstwhile civil rights advocate turned conservative activist, addressed a noontime crowd.
The latest Handsome Dan is an Olde English Bulldog, a line that tries to get rid of some of the maladaptive traits the breed has picked up. He’s definitely one of the cutest mascots!
“I bet 99% of USC fans do not even know who Traveler was.”
Robert E. Lee’s horse.
Little Sorrel was Stonewall Jackson’s horse.
That’s great. Much healthier looking.
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