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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]
Pittsburg State University was founded in 1903 as the Auxiliary Manual Training Normal School, originally a branch of the State Normal School of Emporia (now Emporia State University). In 1913, it became a full-fledged four-year institution as Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg, or Pittsburg State for short. Over the next four decades ...
The Pittsburg State football program began in 1908 under head coach Albert McLeland.McLeland compiled a record of 2–2–2 in his only season as head coach. [3] John Fuhrer succeeded McLeland and served as Pitt State's football coach from 1909 to 1914 and 1918, compiling a record of 26–22–2.
University of Miami mascot Sebastian the Ibis makes the signature "The U" hand gesture, December 2007. ... Gus the Gorilla – mascot of the Pittsburg State Gorillas;
During the 2012 football season, the Gorillas packed more than 10,000 or more fans into Carnie Smith Stadium three times, including a season-high 11,910 fans for Homecoming on Oct. 20 – the largest home crowd in school history. [1] The stadium averaged 10,055 fans per game (126% capacity) during the 2012 season. [2]
Similarly, Pittsburg State University uses Gus the Gorilla as its mascot, "gorilla" being an old colloquial term for coal miners in the Southeast Kansas area in which the university was established. [6] In the United States, controversy [7] surrounds some mascot choices, especially
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.
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 ...