ext_25019 ([identity profile] sigma7.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sigma7 2008-10-08 08:30 pm (UTC)

Yeah, there's a nice size of native nomenclature, just damn hard to pick out in the list. And there's a few other ethnicities bouncing about, too -- Saxons, Irish (of course), Gaels and Britons among others.

Gatorwise there's six more: Allegheny College (Meadville, Pennsylvania); College of Notre Dame of Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland); Pine Manor College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Russell Sage College (Troy, New York); San Francisco State University (San Francisco, California); and University of Houston-Downtown (Houston, Texas). Which is six more than I was expecting, really.

Some of these mascots are just colorful enough that you can't help but pull for them -- the Evergreen State Geoducks (probably not what you would imagine), the McDaniel College Green Terror, the Oregon Institute of Technology Hustlin' Owls, the Oakland City University Mighty Oaks, the University of Maine-Augusta Moose (definite upgrade from "Raiders"), the Whittier College Poets (God, how humiliating for their opponents -- "we got blown out by the Poets last night, man") and the great mascots from the California school system that give us Banana Slugs, Gauchos and Tritons....

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