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re: The SEC and the confederacy stories
Posted on 10/26/11 at 11:46 pm to theGarnetWay
Posted on 10/26/11 at 11:46 pm to theGarnetWay
Yours has to do With Sumter right? Maybe it was a story about sec teams and military backgrounds? Hmmm inwas 20 or 21 at the time lol
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Posted on 10/26/11 at 11:47 pm to theGarnetWay
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Either is SC's. Our comes from the Revolutionary War.
You drunk?
Posted on 10/26/11 at 11:47 pm to Patch
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General Thomas Sumter nicknamed the Carolina Gamecock (after his house was burned down and he went on a rampage of killing British soldiers), was a hero of the American Revolution.
A British General commented that Sumter "fought like a gamecock", and Cornwallis paid him the finest tribute when he described the Gamecock as his greatest plague
Posted on 10/26/11 at 11:50 pm to I Bleed Garnet
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I Bleed Garnet
Yeah SC's official site says though there is nothing definite about exactly why our students started calling us the Gamecock they just know it started catching on by 1902ish and they figured that the moniker may have taken form in the 1st place because of Sumter.
Posted on 10/26/11 at 11:52 pm to I Bleed Garnet
Every team whose name has to do with a civil war has the following in common.
"They were named after the (insert number here) _____th battallion of the Confederacy, about whom it was remarked by a bystander "They fought like a rabid (insert Bulldog, Tiger, Alligator) _______. They displayed great courage as they fought to uphold the rights of southerners to enslave Negroes."
/yawn
"They were named after the (insert number here) _____th battallion of the Confederacy, about whom it was remarked by a bystander "They fought like a rabid (insert Bulldog, Tiger, Alligator) _______. They displayed great courage as they fought to uphold the rights of southerners to enslave Negroes."
/yawn
This post was edited on 10/26/11 at 11:53 pm
Posted on 10/26/11 at 11:52 pm to theGarnetWay
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theGarnetWay
Ya our school certainly has Civil War history.
But the nickname of the mascot doesn't.
Posted on 10/26/11 at 11:53 pm to AlejandroInHouston
Which is still better than most stories.
One game team X beat team Y in a huge game. The student newspaper said they fought like ____. And that became their mascot name.
Yeah I know several buildings in and around the Horseshoe housed wounded Confederate (and eventual Union troops) Hell I'm sure you've noticed that SC historical marker right in front of the Thoma Cooper Library about Union barracks being placed in and around that area.
One game team X beat team Y in a huge game. The student newspaper said they fought like ____. And that became their mascot name.
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Ya our school certainly has Civil War history.
Yeah I know several buildings in and around the Horseshoe housed wounded Confederate (and eventual Union troops) Hell I'm sure you've noticed that SC historical marker right in front of the Thoma Cooper Library about Union barracks being placed in and around that area.
This post was edited on 10/26/11 at 11:55 pm
Posted on 10/26/11 at 11:54 pm to theGarnetWay
Bet you Boise State got it's name from a student body vote.
LAME
LAME
Posted on 10/26/11 at 11:55 pm to Patch
We got our mascot from Hall of Fame coach Hugo Bezdek (Arkansas coach from 1908-1912) who said that we played like a "wild band of razorback hogs" after we defeated LSU in 1909
The Tigers have been intimately familiar with the undersides of hog balls ever since
The only civil war connection that Arkansas really has (AFAIK) is that Old Main's north tower was built slightly higher than its south tower thanks to the yanks who designed the building
The Tigers have been intimately familiar with the undersides of hog balls ever since
The only civil war connection that Arkansas really has (AFAIK) is that Old Main's north tower was built slightly higher than its south tower thanks to the yanks who designed the building
This post was edited on 10/26/11 at 11:57 pm
Posted on 10/26/11 at 11:55 pm to theGarnetWay
ya and Longstreet theater is haunted with ghosts of Dead Soldiers.
You learn all about it in University 101 ahahah.
You learn all about it in University 101 ahahah.
Posted on 10/26/11 at 11:57 pm to Hog on the Hill
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The Tigers have been intimately familiar with the undersides of hog balls ever since
You haven't been familiar with the Tigers' pair of crystal balls, though. And you never will be.
This post was edited on 10/26/11 at 11:57 pm
Posted on 10/26/11 at 11:57 pm to I Bleed Garnet
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I Bleed Garnet
In my Southern Studies class we're getting on the subject of slavery at USC. Lead me to this site. Go to the buildings part. Great historical background and pics of all those pre-Civil War buildings (ie the Horseshoe + Longstreet)
LINK
Posted on 10/27/11 at 12:00 am to theGarnetWay
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theGarnetWay
nice thanks
love reading this kind of stuff
This post was edited on 10/27/11 at 12:02 am
Posted on 10/27/11 at 12:02 am to AlejandroInHouston
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"They were named after the (insert number here) _____th battallion of the Confederacy, about whom it was remarked by a bystander "They fought like a rabid (insert Bulldog, Tiger, Alligator) _______. They displayed great courage as they fought to uphold the rights of southerners to enslave Negroes."
/yawn
<insert defensive 'but but it wasn't just about slavery' comment>
Posted on 10/27/11 at 12:04 am to I Bleed Garnet
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love reading this kind of stuff
Likewise, especially the maps section that shows what used to be there / what is there today / expansion on some buildings. For the longest time I've been wanting to know the history behind that smokestack right off of the Horseshoe, when a USC Historian came into speak in our class about this site I figured this is the perfect person to ask. I asked. The 1st words that came out of her mouth "I don't know." Apparently because it was built after the time frame that site covers.
Posted on 10/27/11 at 12:04 am to AlejandroInHouston
quote:Figures that you girls would have prostheses
You haven't been familiar with the Tigers' pair of crystal balls, though. And you never will be.
Posted on 10/27/11 at 12:10 am to theGarnetWay
The horseshoe is awesome
also was a much better place to have gameday than the fairgrounds.
also was a much better place to have gameday than the fairgrounds.
Posted on 10/27/11 at 12:11 am to I Bleed Garnet
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also was a much better place to have gameday than the fairgrounds.
Yeah it looked great on TV. It was nice in person too being in the shade of all those trees.
We have a very urban campus and there are parts where its not easy to tell where campus ends and city begins but the Horseshoe (and the area immediately behind it) = 
Posted on 10/27/11 at 12:17 am to theGarnetWay
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but the Horseshoe (and the area immediately behind it) =
agreed
Posted on 10/27/11 at 12:21 am to theGarnetWay
the dip shittery in this thread is just disgusting
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