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Post by valeixo888 on Jan 22, 2007 16:46:56 GMT -5
So I was thinking today...what the heck is a Sooner?!?! Oklahoma's mascot/team name Here is a list of a few schools who's names confuse me..any info on what they, their significance are or why they were chosen?! Stony Brooks Seawolves (seawolves?) Loyola Chicago Ramblers (Ramblers?) Florida A & M Rattlerettes (as in Rattle snakes?) Harvard & Alabama Crimson Tide (Crimson Tide?) Vanderbilt Commodores (Commodores?) Western Carolina Catamounts (?) Furman Lady Paladins (?) Southern Illinois Salukis Evansville Purple Aces Wake Forest Deamon Decons Birmingham Southern Lady Chanticleers North Carolina Tar Heels St Louis Bilikins Indiana Hoosiers Illinois Fighting Illini Dartmouth Big Green Stephen Austin Lady Jacks San Francisco Dons St Marys & Iona Gaels St Francis PA Red Flash St Peters Peahens Manhattan Jaspers Stetson Hatters Texas TEch Red Raiders St Johns Red Storm Syracuse Orange Hofstra Pride Tulane Green Wave William and Mary Tribe Kent St Golden Flashes Akron Zips Murray St Racers Stanford Cardinal (Cardinal? I only ever see the tree!) New Orleans Privateers Cool team names... Albany Great Danes, Northern Arizona Lumberjacks, Wichita St Shockers, IPFW Mastodons, La Salle Explorers, Dayton Flyers, Northwestern St Demons, Texas San Antonio Roadrunners, UMKC Kangaroos, Idaho Vandals If I was on a team I'd want to be named the Demons or Vandals...they sound SO tough I know this is a long list, but maybe someone has an interesting story about the names and/or meanings
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Post by BearClause on Jan 22, 2007 17:10:52 GMT -5
A seawolf is a fish. Florida A&M is really the "Lady Rattlers". A Saluki is a sight hound (aka a racing dog) similar in appearance to a greyhound. Tar Heel was supposedly a slur used to describe the people living in North Carolina, where tar and turpentine production were industries. A "Don" is a Spanish nobleman. A Gael is an Irish warrior. "Illini" refers to the Native American Tribe that the state of Illinois is named after. "Red Storm" was made up after the original "Redmen" (a slur used to describe Native Americans) was deemed offensive. Syracuse used to be the "Orangemen" which is a Protestant Irish order. Hofstra was known as "The Flying Dutchmen" until recently. "Racers" supposedly refers to horse racing. "Cardinal" is just a shade of red, which came into being after "Indians" was deemed offensive in the later 1970's.
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Post by Phaedrus on Jan 22, 2007 17:24:32 GMT -5
Harvard & Alabama Crimson Tide (Crimson Tide?)Harvard Crimson is the school color. Vanderbilt Commodores (Commodores?)Vanderbilt was built with money from the Vanderbilt family. The Patriarch was Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, not to be confised with Don Cornelius of Soul Train fame. St Louis BillikensA Billiken was a doll that was popular in the 1900's. A local St. Louis sports writer thought that the St. Louis University's football coach Bender resembled a Billiken so he started to call the football team "Bender's Billikens". And the name stuck. www.slu.edu/readstory/more/699
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Post by silversurfer on Jan 22, 2007 17:43:25 GMT -5
So I was thinking today...what the heck is a Sooner?!?! Oklahoma's mascot/team name Here is a list of a few schools who's names confuse me..any info on what they, their significance are or why they were chosen?! Stony Brooks Seawolves (seawolves?) Loyola Chicago Ramblers (Ramblers?) Florida A & M Rattlerettes (as in Rattle snakes?) Harvard & Alabama Crimson Tide (Crimson Tide?) Vanderbilt Commodores (Commodores?) Western Carolina Catamounts (?) Furman Lady Paladins (?) Southern Illinois Salukis Evansville Purple Aces Wake Forest Deamon Decons Birmingham Southern Lady Chanticleers North Carolina Tar Heels St Louis Bilikins Indiana Hoosiers Illinois Fighting Illini Dartmouth Big Green Stephen Austin Lady Jacks San Francisco Dons St Marys & Iona Gaels St Francis PA Red Flash St Peters Peahens Manhattan Jaspers Stetson Hatters Texas TEch Red Raiders St Johns Red Storm Syracuse Orange Hofstra Pride Tulane Green Wave William and Mary Tribe Kent St Golden Flashes Akron Zips Murray St Racers Stanford Cardinal (Cardinal? I only ever see the tree!) New Orleans Privateers Cool team names... Albany Great Danes, Northern Arizona Lumberjacks, Wichita St Shockers, IPFW Mastodons, La Salle Explorers, Dayton Flyers, Northwestern St Demons, Texas San Antonio Roadrunners, UMKC Kangaroos, Idaho Vandals If I was on a team I'd want to be named the Demons or Vandals...they sound SO tough I know this is a long list, but maybe someone has an interesting story about the names and/or meanings Stony Brook is very close to the water. Seawolves sounds cool. Dayton Flyers I believe refers to the Wright Bros. IPFW, I think a mastodon skeleton was found in Ft. Wayne? Crimson is Harvard's color and "mascot." Furman started as a theological institute, thus "paladins." I assume Stetson Hatters is because stetson is a kind of hat? Indiana Hoosiers is much-debated, as no one knows for sure where the term Hoosier came from
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Post by LowVBIQ on Jan 22, 2007 18:47:21 GMT -5
A "Sooner" is a name that was given to the settlers in Oklahoma that staked claims to land before they were officially allowed to settle on the unassigned lands. Since they were there early, they were breaking the law and apparently defended their illegal property quite fiercely. President Harrison and the government had a specific date in mind and certain people went 'sooner' rather than later.
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Post by Husker_fan_in_VA on Jan 22, 2007 19:00:27 GMT -5
William and Mary Tribe I believe is because William and Mary is in historic Williamsburg, VA and there is a lot of Native American heritage there. Also very closeby is Jamestown.
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Post by BoilerUp! on Jan 22, 2007 19:15:34 GMT -5
Indiana Hoosiers - derived from "Who's There? " is one theory. I think it was typical to shout that when people approached your house in the 1800's. It gave the person visiting a chance to not get shot.
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Post by BearClause on Jan 22, 2007 19:40:03 GMT -5
Like I said before - a Spanish nobleman. However - the mascot costume includes a Zorro like mask.
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Post by Phaedrus on Jan 22, 2007 19:48:18 GMT -5
OK, not exactly on topic, but this was funny.
We were playing at a local high school who's mascot is the Greyhounds. I see in a trophy case a photo of their award winning cheerleading squad. Do you know what they had embroidered on their cheerleading uniforms? Lady Hounds. D'ya think they have problems recruiting kids for their cheerleading squad?
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Post by IdahoBoy on Jan 22, 2007 19:50:29 GMT -5
Just for what its worth... Idaho Vandals ARE tough.
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Post by jgrout on Jan 22, 2007 20:05:09 GMT -5
Here is a list of a few schools who's names confuse me..any info on what they, their significance are or why they were chosen?! Stanford Cardinal (Cardinal? I only ever see the tree!) Stanford's old team name was the Indians. When they changed their team name to Cardinal, they started saying that their colors were "cardinal and white"... a politically correct fib, because they're still maroon and white. The Tree is the Stanford Band's mascot, not Stanford's.
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Post by Pirate VB Fan on Jan 22, 2007 20:10:27 GMT -5
Like I said before - a Spanish nobleman. However - the mascot costume includes a Zorro like mask. Don Diego de la Vega (or in the non-Disney world, Don Diego Vega) is the "real life" alter-ego of Zorro. Don Diego is a spanish nobleman in the California's that fights injustice through his "Zorro" persona.
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Post by Pirate VB Fan on Jan 22, 2007 20:20:43 GMT -5
A Privateer is sort of a legalized Pirate. They work for one country to prey on their enemies during times of war (and often during peace too, an act that made them a true pirate - they would also sometimes attack neutral shipping during war, also piracy). They are not government employees like normal sailors in the normal navy, but rather work for private investors who expect a good return on their money. If caught during war they were to be treated as prisioners of war. If caught during peace (or after attacking neutral shipping anytime) then they were treated as pirates.
Sir Francis Drake was the most famous English Privateer.
I believe the famous cajun pirate Jean Lafitte during the War of 1812 was an American Privateer (and probably the source of the New Orleans nickname).
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Post by ims2pidladat on Jan 22, 2007 21:00:49 GMT -5
wat's a vol? (as in tennesee)
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Post by JustInCase on Jan 22, 2007 21:08:32 GMT -5
Furman University use to be the Furman University Christian Knights....think about it....then you'll see part of the reason they dropped the Christian Knights. However, seeing the short form version of Furman University on apparel isn't much better.
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