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The school does not have a mascot, but student-athletes are known as "Hoosiers", a nickname for natives or residents of Indiana. A bulldog named Ox served as the football team's mascot from 1959 to 1965. [6] Indiana had a bison as its mascot in the late 1960s and introduced a mascot named Mr. Hoosier Pride in 1979.
The university dropped the "Chief Quabachi" mascot in 1989 in response to a variety of objections over use of the Indian caricature [4] and did not have another mascot until 1995, when a blue-and-white gender neutral woodland creature named "Sycamore Sam" became Indiana State's mascot.
A SDSU professor of American Indian Studies states that the mascot teaches the mistaken idea that Aztecs were a local tribe rather than living in Mexico 1,000 miles from San Diego. [20] In April 2017, the university's Associated Students council rejected a resolution to retire the mascot introduced by the Native American Student Association. [21]
The Raider – mascot of Colgate University; Raider Red – one of the official mascots of the Texas Tech Red Raiders; Rally – the mascot of the University of Vermont Catamounts. Rally the Red Hawk – the mascot of the Ripon College (Wisconsin) Red Hawks. Ralphie – a live American bison the official mascot of the Colorado Buffaloes
The university is a member of the Big Ten Conference. Since it does not have a mascot, all teams are known simply as "Hoosiers". The Indiana Hoosiers have won 24 NCAA national championships and one Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) national championship, in addition to 145 NCAA individual national championships.
In 1961, the school was renamed Mississippi State University and the nickname was changed to the "Bulldogs". [99] NC State Wolfpack – North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (North Carolina A&M) was known as the "Aggies" or "Farmers". The school changed its name to the current North Carolina State University in 1917. [192]
University of Miami mascot Sebastian the Ibis makes the University of Miami's signature "The U" hand gesture, December 2007. Often, the choice of the mascot reflects the desired quality; a typical example of this is the "fighting spirit," in which a competitive nature is personified by warriors or predatory animals.
IUP originally dubbed its sports teams the "Indians", in reference to the town and school's name, and used a costumed student as a mascot. Following movements to eliminate Native American-related mascots, the university eliminated the Indian mascot in 1991, replacing it with an American black bear named Cherokee - deriving from the name of the university's fight song, though it retained the ...