re: If I was an Auburn Fan

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If I was an Auburn Fan
AU CATFISH, I'm not polling anyone. I associate with the people my age (57) who graduated from AU and they said that during their time at AU they were called the Plainsmen. One even produced a '69 yearbook that definitely states that ya'll were the Plainsmen. FWIW, go to the AU library and look up the old AU yearbooks, then come back to me and give me a link where your school was always called the tigers. .

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Auburn Nickname Explanation
Auburn’s nickname is the TIGERS.
Auburn’s battle cry is “WAR EAGLE!”
Through the years, these two Auburn terms have often been used
interchangeably and incorrectly. There are hats and T-shirts with
Auburn War Eagles on them. Even the news media has been known to
refer to an Auburn team as the War Eagles or to an Auburn player as a
War Eagle.
In fact, when the Tigers play a game on the road, there is often an
article written in the local paper wondering why Auburn has three nicknames
– the Auburn Tigers, the Auburn War Eagles and the Auburn
Plainsmen.
To set the record straight, Auburn has only one nickname – the
Auburn Tigers.
“War Eagle” is a battle cry, used by Auburn fans in the same manner
Alabama fans yell “Roll Tide!” and Arkansas fans yell “Sooie Pig!” You
never hear Alabama referred to as the Alabama Roll Tides or Arkansas
as the Arkansas Sooie Pigs, and to call Auburn teams the Auburn War
Eagles would be just as incorrect. The battle cry “War Eagle” should
never have an “s” on the end of it.
The nickname “Tigers” comes from a line in Oliver Goldsmith’s
poem, “The Deserted Village,” published in May 1770, “where crouching
tigers wait their hapless prey…”
The term “Plainsmen” comes from a line in that same Goldsmith
poem, “Sweet Auburn, loveliest (sic) village of the plain…” Since
Auburn athletes were, in the early days, men from the Plains, it was only
natural for newspaper headline writers to shorten that to “Plainsmen.”
It may be confusing to an outsider, but to Auburn people, it is very
simple. That’s why War Eagle VII, Auburn’s golden eagle symbol, is
named Nova!

Old Auburn Programs

Find in the description where Auburn is not called the tigers. Students have been and still are referred to as "plainsmen" but it has never been the Auburn Mascot.