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Posted on 8/30/15 at 11:20 am to Warfarer
Posted on 8/30/15 at 11:20 am to Warfarer
quote:Actually not true (but I wish it was).
This is the origin of our Tiger mascot.
We had a coach way back when that copied "Tigers" from Princeton, at some point people realized tigers were one of the animals mentioned in the poem and started attributing it to that
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Posted on 8/30/15 at 11:55 am to TheSandman
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Actually not true (but I wish it was).
We had a coach way back when that copied "Tigers" from Princeton, at some point people realized tigers were one of the animals mentioned in the poem and started attributing it to that
Just what I read on one of those "where all the SEC mascots come from" articles on Facebook.
Posted on 8/30/15 at 8:32 pm to TheSandman
quote:
Actually not true (but I wish it was).
We had a coach way back when that copied "Tigers" from Princeton
I don't believe that's true. We copied our colors from UVA because that's where Petrie learned football, but I haven't heard the Princeton connection. I'd be interested to see where that came from.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 8:48 pm to TheSandman
That coach was Cliff Hare. he brought football from Princeton to Auburn. Its how we got orange and blue as well.
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