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How about Kent State’s…The Golden Flashes…couldn’t find any history about its origin.

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I found some information on the “Golden Flashes” on the Special Collections website at Kent State. Evidently, the original mascot for Kent State was actually the “Silver Foxes” — so named because Kent State’s first president, John McGilvrey, raised them. In 1926, there was a contest to select a new mascot, and the winning submission was the “Golden Flashes.” Since then, the “Golden Flashes” have been represented by a golden retriever named “Flasher” (1951-66), a cartoon character named “Grog” (1966-71), a golden palomino with a masked rider in blue and gold (1972-75), and finally, “Flash,” a giant furry eagle who is the present mascot. Finally, while certainly unique, the “Golden Flashes” hardly deserve mention alongside such mascots as Boll Weevils, Banana Slugs, and Fighting Pickles. “Flash” is much too respectable for that. “Grog” on the other hand …

Fighting Pickels? What’s the big dill?

Don’t forget about the good ol’ TCU Horned Frogs. How they turned an awkward little lizard into a proud mascot no one will ever know.

My shcool is Alfred University and our mascot is the Saxon… most students arent even sure of what a Saxon is.

Its not a college but my high school in Havre, Montana’s mascot is the Blue Ponies. Also Chinook High School just a mere 40 miles or so from Havre is the Sugar Beaters. Interesting side note, although their mascot is also the Blue Pony our swim team has a shark with the word pony written on it. Identity crisis?

Heh. The University of Delaware has the “Fightin’ Blue Hen” from the Colonial days when cock-fighting was a serious sport. Now keep in mind, a hen is a female chicken a cock is male. The current incarnartion, YoUDee is undeniably male, leaving us with a gender-confused chicken for a mascot. He is also known as the “big blue cock” and the “ass-kickin’ chicken”.

you didn’t mention the Evergreen State Geoducks(pronounced “gooey duck”)!!! This is the weirdest ever! The geoduck is a penis-shaped saltwater clam, and the best part is the Evergreen State Geoduck Fight Song:

Go, Geoducks go,
Through the mud and the sand,
let’s go.
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.

Go, Geoducks go,
Stretch your necks when the tide is low
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.

(words and music by Malcolm Stilson, 1971)

At Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN) we are the “Fightin’ Engineers”.

At my high school we were the Midland High “Chemics.” Don’t ask me what a Chemic is, but I think the name was chosen because the town is the home of Dow Chemical Corp. Our mascot is a guy who dresses up as “Captain Chemic,” a weirdie who looks similar to Ronald McDonald, but dressed in blue and gold, our school colors. Our school symbol is the Neils Bohr atom model.

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Try Rhode Island School of Design’s mascot: Scrotie, a 6-foot penis. The team is called the Nads.

http://deadspin.com/sports/whimsy/your-all+time-best-mascot-winner-176616.php

I’d heard of the Evergreen State Geoducks… seriously weird.

Also worth noting is that Skidmore’s mascot was the Wombat, once upon a time. Then school administrators came to their senses and changed it to the Thoroughbreds (a reflection on Saratoga and horses, not on snooty new england pedigrees).

Harvey Mudd College. We have no official mascot, but we all unofficially have adopted the wart (referring to an architectural oddity on most of our buildings) as our mascot.

How about the Tulsa Golden Hurricane? Think about it…Oklahoma is a land-locked state! The mascot, Captain ‘Cane looks like a wad of pissed-off chewing gum.

Why Golden Hurricane? Well, because at the time, Georgia Tech was the Golden Tornado, which would have been a much more appropriate name for the University of Tulsa’s team.

Well, my alma mater has a rather unique mascot… I graduated from a private, Pentecostal college, and our team is the Flames and our mascot is Sparky. Read Acts Chapter 2 in the Bible and it will explain our mascot and our team. As Pentecostals, we believe in the fire of the Holy Spirit dwelling in our lives, and our team and mascot represents that.

There’s a school in western Michigan outside of Grand Rapids called Grand Valley State. They are the Lakers.. I’m guessing because Michigan is surronded by the great lakes.. not very intimidating unless you can’t swim..

I think Alli’s high school mascot and my high school’s mascot the Annandale ‘Atoms’ would get along just fine. Our mascot was the ‘Atom Man’, a kid dressed in a white turtle neck with a bunch of red and white hula hoops around him. I have no idea how they chose the atom as our mascot but it might have something to do with the school opening during the beginning of the atomic age.

My high scool’s mascot was the Greenmen. It looked like a leprechaun on steroids.

My high schhol’s mascot in Aurora, Ohio was the Greenmen.

Two other high school mascots are the Freeport “Prezels” and the Polo Community High School “Marcos”. Both located in Illinois. Couldn’t make that stuff up!!

Very weird all, but I actually graduated from Southern Arkansas University in beautiful Magnolia, AR. We are the Muleriders. No, I did not make that up. Supposedly had something to do w/ the football team riding mules to the train station to travel to away games in the by-gone era. (Nothing like being an athlete and having to admit that you are an ever-so-intimidating MULERIDER…arg!)

Western Maryland College (now called McDaniel College). We are the Green Terrors. Don’t know what in the world that is- but he he looks like a crazed animal!

Gentlemen,

For the sake of accuracy, the official mascot of women’s athletics at the University of Arkansas at Monticello is “Cotton Blossoms,” not Lady Blossoms. And the Boll Weevil was chosen by our students back in the 1920s when cotton was still king in this area and there were no pesticides to stop boll weevils.

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Can’t get weirder than a bivalve with gym shorts!!! We are trying to make a bobble head for the school and dealing with the long extended foot has proven interesting!!! Some think our version is too short and some think it’s too long. Everyone has their preference I guess!!!

I love eating gooey ducks. My mother loves to make it with rice, tastes great! Though I do think you have to get used to the texture.

Check out http://www.gooey-duck.com/ for info.

What about the Ichabods of Washburn University (Kansas).

This unusual mascot was chosen to honor the school’s early benefactor, Ichabod Washburn. Washburn University was originally established as Lincoln College in 1865. Three years later, the school faced bankruptcy, and Washburn, a Massachusetts philanthropist, donated $25,000 to the school. In appreciation of this gift, the name of the educational institution was changed to Washburn College.
It wasn’t until 1938 that the original design of the studious-looking, tuxedo-clad figure was created by Bradbury Thompson, a student who became a nationally recognized graphic artist.

I graduated from Wayland Baptist University, in Plainview, Texas. Our teams are all “Pioneers”, except the women’s basketball team. They are the “Flying Queens” because a local air service flies them to all of their games.
We used to live in Salt Lake City, where Jordan High School is known as “The Beatdiggers”. The student body had a vote, and over 80% of the students voted to keep the mascot!

How can the list be this long without mentioning the Gamecocks?

gobblers.
yepp, the gobblers.

that’s all i will say…

Oh, you’ve just got to add my high school mascot, it’s up there on the list of strange ones:
Jordan High School, in Sandy, Utah, USA,
*BEETDIGGERS*
(The area used to have many sugarbeet farms. These are very large white beets, not the itty bitty little red ones.)

What about NYU? The Violets. LOL