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Original SEC mascots
Posted on 8/6/22 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 8/6/22 at 12:26 pm
Yes, it’s still the off season.
Alabama had a dog, bulldog, actress (in the 1938 Rose Bowl - Dixie Dunbar), before settling on an Elephant.
I think we should have kept the actress theme going.
Alabama had a dog, bulldog, actress (in the 1938 Rose Bowl - Dixie Dunbar), before settling on an Elephant.
I think we should have kept the actress theme going.
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Posted on 8/6/22 at 12:28 pm to RelentlessTide
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bulldog, actress
Definitely a Bama girl
Posted on 8/6/22 at 12:29 pm to RelentlessTide
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think we should have kept the actress theme going
Alabama Actresses does have a nice ring to it
Y’all could’ve even gone Alabama Fightin’ Actresses
Posted on 8/6/22 at 12:34 pm to RelentlessTide
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Alabama had a dog, bulldog, actress (in the 1938 Rose Bowl - Dixie Dunbar), before settling on an Elephant.
They had a couple of dogs and a donkey, as well. A regular Aggie Friday night.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 12:38 pm to RelentlessTide
quote:That is a “Roll Tide” for me
Dixie Dunbar
Posted on 8/6/22 at 12:57 pm to Mulkey Man
She fits all the criteria for actress, elephant and crimson tide. Hire her.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:33 pm to Wolfhound45
She cute
Posted on 8/6/22 at 3:05 pm to RelentlessTide
Pretty sure that UGA started with a goat
Posted on 8/6/22 at 3:07 pm to Mulkey Man
And elephant
This post was edited on 8/6/22 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 8/6/22 at 3:10 pm to RelentlessTide
UGA was originally "The Red and Black" similar to Crimson Tide or Tulane's Green Wave. But in the early 20th century a reporter referred to UGA's players as bulldogs, and it stuck and eventually became official.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 4:30 pm to deeprig9
Arkansas was originally the Cardinals. Thus the cardinal & white colors........
Posted on 8/6/22 at 4:39 pm to RelentlessTide
LSU has always been the Tigers but the school colors were originally blue and white, albeit those were never used for sports as they used purple and gold for their first football game in 1893
Posted on 8/6/22 at 4:40 pm to deeprig9
There was also a brief time in the early 20s when we went by the wildcats.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 4:40 pm to dcbl
Yes - UGA first had a goat for a mascot
Posted on 8/6/22 at 4:41 pm to Mulkey Man
Pretty incredible how the elephant on her outfit is actually life-size.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 4:42 pm to Mulkey Man
Amazing how she's still half the size of your average Louisiana woman.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 5:09 pm to RelentlessTide
Dixie Dunbar wasn't the first successful actress/ actor to come through Tuscaloosa and get noticed at the Rose Bowl. In 1925 Bama went to the rose Bowl and halfback Johnny Mack Brown, the game's mvp, was convinced to take some head shots by a Hollywood agent while he was in California. Brown would go on to star in over 60 westerns in a long acting career.
This post was edited on 8/6/22 at 5:47 pm
Posted on 8/6/22 at 7:16 pm to lsufball19
Pretty sure the first LDU mascot was a New Orleans “he/she” of mixed French and African descent.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 8:10 pm to RelentlessTide
Little known fact that we originally used the Jaguars moniker.
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But sports soon followed and the first football game between the two schools was played Nov. 12, 1896 — a Thursday — at the Elmwood Fairgrounds. About 2,000 spectators paid 25 cents to watch the then South Carolina College Jaguars defeat Clemson 12-6.
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Posted on 8/6/22 at 8:49 pm to theGarnetWay
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paid 25 cents
Those scalpin bastards….
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