How many SEC football teams are named after civil war references?

Alabama's "Rammer Jammer" is a reference to what Confederate soldiers from Alabama were referred to often (as well as the state bird).

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Alabama's "Rammer Jammer" is a reference to what Confederate soldiers from Alabama were referred to often

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By the way, your welcome New Orleans.

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Not Kentucky.

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I wouldn't expect Kentucky to, as it was a "border state". However, it seems it does get the Wildcat nickname from somewhat military origins.

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Commandant Carbusier, then head of the military department at old State University, told a group of students in a chapel service following the game that the Kentucky football team had "fought like Wildcats."

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Auburn: No, Came from the town its in, which is a common town name through the English speaking world. It came from an Irish poem by Oliver Goldsmith.

Tigers: No, also came from a William Blake poem

War Eagle: Yes, since the nominal "war" from the legend is the civil war.

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"Gamecocks" is a Revolutionary War reference. Named after General Thomas Sumter, the Fighting Gamecock.

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Meh Bad.

Revolutionary War>Civil War.

Would make sense that Fort Sumter would be named after someone who fought in the revolutionary war as opposed to someone who was fighting in the civil war.

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By the way, your welcome New Orleans.

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We payed you back with Peyton.

Kentucky wasn't even part of the Confederacy. Go join the Big 10

Actually MSU does have a civil war reference. They were the Maroons before the bulldogs. A maroon was a runaway slave that lived on an island like Jamaica.

Alabama confederate soldiers were known as Yellowhammers or the Yellowhammer Company because of their grey uniforms being trimmed in yellow. The Alabama soliders were proud of the name and after the war the civil war veterans of Alabama would wear Yellowhammer feathers in their caps or lapels.

Thus the Rammer Jammer Yellowhammer.