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re: SDS warning: Brief history of SEC team nicknames
Posted on 5/21/16 at 3:18 pm to CNB
Posted on 5/21/16 at 3:18 pm to CNB
The reporter missed a few:
Florida's nickname was the Rats
Miss. St. was the Blacksmiths
Auburn was known as the Plainsmen even into the late 60's
LSU was mistakenly called the Pelicans in the late 1890's and early 1900's.
I read the old newspapers from the 1890's and 1900's for research on early football.
The Arkansas football team was on a road trip to Texas in 1908 when a Texan saw them getting off the train and called them Hogs form Arkansas, Hugo Bezdek liked the name and got it changed by the next season.
Florida's nickname was the Rats
Miss. St. was the Blacksmiths
Auburn was known as the Plainsmen even into the late 60's
LSU was mistakenly called the Pelicans in the late 1890's and early 1900's.
I read the old newspapers from the 1890's and 1900's for research on early football.
The Arkansas football team was on a road trip to Texas in 1908 when a Texan saw them getting off the train and called them Hogs form Arkansas, Hugo Bezdek liked the name and got it changed by the next season.
This post was edited on 5/21/16 at 3:25 pm
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