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The Sooner Schooner is an official mascot of the sports teams of the University of Oklahoma Sooners.Pulled by two white ponies named Boomer and Sooner, it is a scaled-down replica of the Studebaker Conestoga wagon used by settlers of the Oklahoma Territory around the time of the Land Run of 1889.
Boomer and Sooner are two matching white ponies who pull the Sooner Schooner, a Conestoga wagon across the field when the University of Oklahoma football team scores. The Sooner Schooner is the true mascot of the team, bringing to mind the pioneers who settled Indian Territory during the 1889 Land Run and were the original "Sooners".
The most notable job of the RUF/NEKS is the driving of the Sooner Schooner during football games. This tradition started in 1965. The ponies that pull the Conestoga wagon are taken care of by local Oklahoma residents who drive them to Norman. Once there, the ponies are prepped and strapped to the Schooner by the RUF/NEKS.
The Sooner Schooner first appeared at an Oklahoma football game in 1964, and in every appearance for 57 years, has been driven by a man. Dean is president of Oklahoma’s RUF/NEK Lil’ Sis ...
The "Sooner Schooner Roadshow," a trip taking the Sooner Schooner, its ponies and members of OU's RUF/NEKS and RUF/NEK Lil' Sis to the cities of the SEC, concludes with stops in Tulsa and Oklahoma ...
The Sooner Schooner that cruised the field during Heupel’s playing career might as well have rested on flat tires, because it sat motionless for most of the night while the Sooners stumbled ...
The school fight song is titled "Boomer Sooner". The school "mascot" is a replica of a 19th-century covered wagon, called the "Sooner Schooner". When the OU football team scores the Sooner Schooner is pulled across the field by a pair of ponies named "Boomer" and "Sooner". There are a pair of costumed mascots also named "Boomer" and "Sooner".
The Sooner Schooner on the field during a football game. Never an official mascot, Little Red began appearing at games in 1953. He was an Indian who wore red tights, breech cloth and a war bonnet and was last portrayed by Randy Palmer. [195] In April 1970, Little Red was banished by Oklahoma president John Herbert Hollomon, Jr.