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Pittsburg Gorillas lawn sign in Fort Scott Kansas, August 2023. The official mascot of Pitt State Athletic teams is Gus the Gorilla, designed in by L. Michael Hailey in 1985. Pitt State is the only college in the nation with the Gorilla as its official mascot for its men's and women's teams. [5]
The Pittsburg State football team was formed in 1908, competes in NCAA Division II and is affiliated with the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA). The Gorillas play their home games at Carnie Smith Stadium, more commonly referred to as "The Jungle", in Pittsburg, Kansas. Pittsburg State has won more games than any other ...
Carnie Smith Stadium (formerly Brandenburg Stadium) is the football stadium for Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas. The stadium is nicknamed "The Jungle" (after the school's mascot, the gorilla), or "The Pitt."
In the program's beginning, the team was known as the Normals, but that changed in the early 1920s when the student body voted to be nicknamed the Gorillas. [2] Since 1924, Pittsburg State's football team has played in Carnie Smith Stadium, named after the seventh head coach at Pittsburg State. Prior to renaming the stadium after Smith in 1986 ...
Gus the Gorilla – mascot of the Pittsburg State Gorillas; ... College football's 12 coolest mascots – 1. Ralphie the Buffalo , 2. Uga , 3. Chief Osceola ...
Coach Tim Beck at a football game in 2016. The Pittsburg State Gorillas football program is a college football team that represents Pittsburg State University in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, a part of the NCAA Division II. The team has had 15 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1908.
He has missed but three football games since volunteering his mascot services at the state championship game in December of 1992. One of the absences came when his father died.
There was a Central Hockey League team called the Amarillo Gorillas. The Fitzroy Football Club, an Australian rules football team based in Melbourne, was nicknamed the Gorillas for part of its existence. Pittsburg State University's athletic teams are known as the Gorillas, and their mascot is known as Gus the Gorilla.