re: SDS warning: Brief history of SEC team nicknames

I always thought Tennessee Volunteers was in reference to those who took up arms in the Texas Revolution. Had no idea it was because of the War of 1812. Either way, we thank your ancestors for their service against Santa Anna and his men.

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Still, Vanderbilt — a shipping and railroad magnate — did donate his largest steamship to Union forces during the Civil War.

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I guess we are Yankee after all

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SDS is terrible and should be viewed the same as Bleacher Report on here.

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BR is actually becoming better than SDS

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.

LSU's is incorrect.

Google Lee's Tigers

Old Money LSU's nickname Tigers comes from Major Roberdeau Wheat's 1st. Special Battalion Louisiana Volunteer Infantry.

Not the Washington Artillery.

I have Major Wheat's autograph in my collection, it is wanted by the LSU Hall Library as that autograph is very hard to come find.

Yes the Washington Artillery was looked as the best Artillery unit in the Army of Northern Virginia.

The 7th Louisiana also had a company with the walking Tiger badge on it's capi at the start of the war.

Wheat was buried at Gaine's Mills by later General Stanford and later Major David French Boyd (the brother of Thomas Boyd, the future President of LSU, David being superintendent after the war).