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re: Origin of our mascot
Posted on 12/14/22 at 8:38 am to timdonaghyswhistle
Posted on 12/14/22 at 8:38 am to timdonaghyswhistle
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military style traditions
A lot more of this in southern football tradition than most realize.
Exactly. The number of southern colleges that are products or beneficiaries of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts is pretty amazing.
Auburn
Arkansas
Kentucky
LSU
Miss State
Mizzou
NC State
Clemson
aTm
VA Tech
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Posted on 12/14/22 at 8:59 am to PJinAtl
U of Tennessee & U of Florida are also Land Grant colleges ala 1862 Morrill Act. All Land Grant colleges were mandated to teach Military Science for 100 years, thus compulsory ROTC until 1970s.
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