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Willie Wildcat at a baseball game. The first costumed Willie mascot appeared in 1947. Willie has changed many times, and currently, has an appearance that is heavily influenced by the team's Powercat logo: 1947: K-State's first costumed mascot, "Sparky," appeared at the September football game against Oklahoma A&M.
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The official mascot for the Kansas State Wildcats is Willie the Wildcat. Willie appears at every football game, home and away, as well as every home men's and women's basketball games, volleyball games, and select baseball games. Willie does one push-up for each point the football team scores, which is followed by a "K!-S!-U! Wildcats!" cheer.
The name was so popular that university board members made "Wildcats" the official nickname just months later. In 1933, the Northwestern athletic department and an advertising firm created the first image of Willie. However, he did not come to life until 1947, when members of the Alpha Delta fraternity dressed up as him during the Homecoming ...
Willie the Wildcat can refer to: Willie the Wildcat (Kansas State), the athletics mascot at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.