It’s native to the Pacific Northwest, which explains why the college chose it as a mascot. The geoduck (gooey-duck) isn’t a waterfowl, as you might suspect, but a mollusk. Surely an inspired mascot if I’ve ever heard one. Speedy the Geoduck, Evergreen State College, Washington.
#Speeding the geo duck full#
Richard Nixon is probably Whittier's most famous Poet (although it has lots of notable alumni, including the actress who played Kimmie Gibler on Full House) - he was an accomplished football, basketball and track runner for Whittier. The town the college is in is also called Whittier. This one is pretty easy - the school is named after poet and abolitionist John Whittier. John Poet – Whittier College, California. This name comes courtesy of former school President Frank Horsfall, who noted in 1925 that “the only gosh-darned thing that ever licked the South was the boll weevil.”ħ. Boll Weevil, University of Arkansas Monticello.
Former college president Art DeCabooter says the artichoke won out because it’s got heart. The choices? The Artichokes, the Rutabagas or the Scoundrels. So they picked three unorthodox mascots and let the students vote. The school needed a new mascot in the 1970s, but at the time, the student government was mad at the administration for steering funding toward athletics instead of academics. Artie the Fighting Artichoke – Scottsdale Community College. Any Neatoramanauts know the story? My research did turn up another interesting fact, though: Tallulah Bankhead was a Mary Baldwin grad.ĥ. I can’t find a single thing on why they named her Gladys. The school’s mascot is the squirrel because Mary Baldwin had a squirrel in her family crest. Gladys the Fighting Squirrel, Mary Baldwin College in Virginia. Purdue also has Purdue Pete, a human Boilermaker who carries around a hammer. Today, Purdue is on Boilermaker Special V and the X-Tra Special VI, a mini version that can go indoors.
The train would then carry fans to other cities for games, and became known as Boilermaker Specials. The idea snowballed into building a train that could be driven like a car, which showed off the school’s prowess in the engineering realm while giving them a meaningful mascot at the same time. Even so, the university had no official mascot until 1937, when a student suggested a “mechanical man” or something similar as a mascot. Some background: the first reference to the Boilermaker name came in an 1890s newspaper article that called the Purdue team “Burly Boiler Makers,” which was a nod to their engineering roots. The Boilermaker Special, Purdue University. They won, and Sammy has been one of the most recognizable college mascots ever since.ģ. But students at UC Santa Cruz had grown attached to the colorful slugs that populated the redwoods on campus and had sort of adopted them as an unofficial mascot, so when the university announced their sea lion decision, students rallied together to lobby for the hermaphroditic Ariolimax columbianus. When the University decided to get into the NCAA game in 1980, it was decided that the school’s mascot would be the venerable sea lion. Sammy the Banana Slug, University of California Santa Cruz. The “Cyclones” moniker came in 1895, when the ISU football team trounced Northwestern and a reporter noted, “"Northwestern might as well have tried to play football with an Iowa cyclone as with the Iowa team it met yesterday." Photo: ISU Alumni AssociationĢ. So why is a cardinal the mascot of a team named after a force of nature? Because it’s kind of hard to make a mascot out of a tornado, Cy the Cardinal was chosen by students in 1954 to represent the school colors of cardinal and gold. I have to put this one in here, ‘cause I’m an ISU alum and still like to tailgate it up during football season. Cy the Cardinal, Iowa State University Cyclones.
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