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Posted on 5/20/16 at 1:37 pm to BluegrassBelle
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Ours is pretty accurate.
It seems ours wasn't as "laughably incorrect" as I thought either.
Posted on 5/20/16 at 1:58 pm to CNB
I always thought Tennessee Volunteers was in reference to those who took up arms in the Texas Revolution. Had no idea it was because of the War of 1812. Either way, we thank your ancestors for their service against Santa Anna and his men.
Posted on 5/20/16 at 2:00 pm to NYCAuburn
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Should have stuck with the billy goats
that was a mascot, not our team name.
We also had a wildcat mascot briefly in the early 20s, but that wasn't our official moniker.
Posted on 5/20/16 at 2:18 pm to CNB
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Still, Vanderbilt — a shipping and railroad magnate — did donate his largest steamship to Union forces during the Civil War.
I guess we are Yankee after all
Posted on 5/21/16 at 2:49 pm to AggieDub14
quote:Believe it or not, things don't revolve around the state of Texas. Kentucky and Tennessee supplied the largest number of men in the War of 1812 of any state.
I always thought Tennessee Volunteers was in reference to those who took up arms in the Texas Revolution.
This post was edited on 5/21/16 at 2:50 pm
Posted on 5/21/16 at 2:52 pm to hg
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SDS is terrible and should be viewed the same as Bleacher Report on here.
BR is actually becoming better than SDS
Posted on 5/21/16 at 3:18 pm to CNB
The reporter missed a few:
Florida's nickname was the Rats
Miss. St. was the Blacksmiths
Auburn was known as the Plainsmen even into the late 60's
LSU was mistakenly called the Pelicans in the late 1890's and early 1900's.
I read the old newspapers from the 1890's and 1900's for research on early football.
The Arkansas football team was on a road trip to Texas in 1908 when a Texan saw them getting off the train and called them Hogs form Arkansas, Hugo Bezdek liked the name and got it changed by the next season.
Florida's nickname was the Rats
Miss. St. was the Blacksmiths
Auburn was known as the Plainsmen even into the late 60's
LSU was mistakenly called the Pelicans in the late 1890's and early 1900's.
I read the old newspapers from the 1890's and 1900's for research on early football.
The Arkansas football team was on a road trip to Texas in 1908 when a Texan saw them getting off the train and called them Hogs form Arkansas, Hugo Bezdek liked the name and got it changed by the next season.
This post was edited on 5/21/16 at 3:25 pm
Posted on 5/21/16 at 3:33 pm to WG_Dawg
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that was a mascot, not our team name.
So are you the billygoats of the Bulldogs? Pick one already.
This post was edited on 5/21/16 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 5/21/16 at 3:34 pm to CNB
LSU's is incorrect.
Google Lee's Tigers
Google Lee's Tigers
This post was edited on 5/21/16 at 3:53 pm
Posted on 5/21/16 at 3:40 pm to CNB
Missouri "Home of the original Tigers".
Posted on 5/21/16 at 3:48 pm to Old Money
Old Money LSU's nickname Tigers comes from Major Roberdeau Wheat's 1st. Special Battalion Louisiana Volunteer Infantry.
Not the Washington Artillery.
I have Major Wheat's autograph in my collection, it is wanted by the LSU Hall Library as that autograph is very hard to come find.
Not the Washington Artillery.
I have Major Wheat's autograph in my collection, it is wanted by the LSU Hall Library as that autograph is very hard to come find.
Posted on 5/21/16 at 3:52 pm to tigger1
Thanks for the correction. Wash Art are also the Tigers and I know they too played an important role.
Posted on 5/21/16 at 4:11 pm to Old Money
Yes the Washington Artillery was looked as the best Artillery unit in the Army of Northern Virginia.
The 7th Louisiana also had a company with the walking Tiger badge on it's capi at the start of the war.
Wheat was buried at Gaine's Mills by later General Stanford and later Major David French Boyd (the brother of Thomas Boyd, the future President of LSU, David being superintendent after the war).
The 7th Louisiana also had a company with the walking Tiger badge on it's capi at the start of the war.
Wheat was buried at Gaine's Mills by later General Stanford and later Major David French Boyd (the brother of Thomas Boyd, the future President of LSU, David being superintendent after the war).
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