My high school mascot was a knight, which is funny cause no knight ever stepped an armored toe in America, let alone in the tiny town I went to school in. But the history of mascots dates back decades, all the way to the 19th century. But why? Bobblehall states that"the term is m...
The Curious Case of the Texas High School With Two Mascots At Comfort High School, in the Texas Hill Country, girls teams are the Deer and boys teams are the Bobcats. What gives? ByBenton Graham Sports| October 31, 2024 Inside the Longest Active Regular-Season Win Streak in Texas High Sc...
These famous pooches will live on as some of the greatest mascots in Texas college football history.
The Texanist: What Happens to College Sports Mascots When They Die? The California parent of a UT freshman wonders about Bevo’s ultimate fate when the final whistle blows. ByDavid Courtney 3:40 Texas Country Reporter| March 18, 2023
But journalists who covered football games, for example, couldn’t simply refer to a team as ‘varsity, as that could be applied to either school, and always writing out the full name – the University of Texas football team – was too cumbersome. Instead, the use of mascots as team ...
In Jay Workman’sletter to the editorin the October 2011 issue, he shames Donna High School for denigrating Native Americans by having Redskins as its mascot. Give me a break! One of my school mascots was the Haskell Indians. We are still proud of our mascots and will always defend them...
Beginning with the 1971 football season, the Southwest Conference forbade the inclusion of live animal mascots to away games unless the host school consented. For situations where the host school did not want to allow the Masked Rider's horse, an alternate mascot was needed. Jim Gaspard, a ...
During his 26 years with the game, Trent had memorized the mascots for nearly every high school in the state, from the Carthage Bulldogs to the Dell City Cougars, from the Demons of Dumas down to the Panthers of Weslaco. His talent was well-known throughout Pampa. Men approached him at...
Everyone knows how much Texas Tech hates the University of Texas. At every Texas Tech sporting event, you'll see students throwing 'horns down' hand gestures and the school goes absolutely crazy over any game our teams play against them. ...
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