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i think beth takes the cake but as for high schools, my home high school is the lightning bolt (try putting a face on that) and one of my rival high schools is the "flying Ls"... that's right, the flying Ls. they have a pretty sweet story behind it but still...

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Please, elaborate :)

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Beavers don't need to be intimidating because they have something much more valuable..... they are clever. :cool:

GO 1403!!!

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correct me if Im wrong but arnt beavers on the endangered species list?

how intimidating can you be if your species is on the brink of extinction?

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I sure hope not, 'cause they're a furbearer in PA!

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There are two institutes of higher learning that have recognized that the beaver is most appropriate for a mascot. They are MIT and Caltech. I am fairly sure (and Woodie will back me up...) that MIT selected this noble animal first.

Here's what Lester Gardner (MIT 1898) said in favor of this mascot which was selected by MIT in 1914:

“We first thought of the kangaroo, which, like Tech, goes forward by leaps and bounds. Then we considered the elephant. He is wise, patient, strong, hard working, and like all those who graduate from Tech, has a good tough hide. But neither of these were American animals. We turned to [William Temple] Hornaday’s book on the animals of North America and instantly chose the beaver. The beaver not only typifies the Tech [student], but his habits are peculiarly our own. The beaver is noted for his engineering, mechanical skills, and industry. His habits are nocturnal. He does his best work in the dark.”

-Mr. Van
Coach, RoboDox 599

PS. It is University of California at Santa Cruz which has the glorious Bannana Slug as its mascot.

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Well Cody, Fort Lauderdale High School never originally had a mascot but they had a killer track team. The track team was so good that a newspaper writer once wrote "look at those flying Ls" (they had a big L on their shirts). And so, Fort Lauderdale has been the "Flying Ls" ever since. Don't know when, exactly, that but Fort Lauderdale is the oldest school in our county (i think our school takes second for like 52 years or something).

(Note: South Florida is new. it was like underwater a few years ago --hyperbole-- so give it some slack)

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The mascot for the science olympiad team at our school is a slug... they have it all over their clothes, which says they are the "LM slugs."

As for the oldest school, parts of our school were build almost a hundred years ago. Its so old that they can't knock it that part of the school down if they ever decide whether to build a new school or not.

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Faugh on the banana slug. Zot zot zot!

University of California, Irvine, class of '81...

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Our mascot is the martian. It is suposed to be like the greek god of war but all the people we compete against ask if it is like the alien. Durand high school about an hour away has the weirdest mascot though, the railroaders because they have a train in their town.

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My school's mascot is the Trailblazer. Interesting, right? Go Blazers! (Oh yes, our marching band is knows as 'The Marching Scots'.

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what ira forgot to mention though is the actual school logo is a bulldog...definately a tough logo. :D

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Ah, you people are forgetting the best one...

The Yuma Criminals...


The first year at the new location, the Yuma High football team traveled to Phoenix to play the Coyotes. Yuma High School won the game in the last seconds. A Phoenix Newspaper sports reporter was standing on the home team side and as they were leaving he overheard a lady say: "It was just criminal the way they stole that game." As you can guess, the next day in the Phoenix newspaper's sport section the headline read: "The Yuma High Criminals stole a Game." We were upset at the time, but after awhile, the "Criminals" wore their name with pride. In 1917, the nickname was officially adopted and Yuma High became the home of the Criminals.


http://www.yumahighschool.com/



As for colleges, after getting my undergrad at Kent State "The Golden Flashes" I received my masters from the University of Akron which are the "Zips"

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well at my high school we used to be the redskins about five or six years ago and our nickname was the "reds". but then since the mascots can't be native american related, we had to lose the redskins name and adopt a new mascot a year later but we were still the reds. The school adopted the bulldog as the mascot, yeah but, guess what? we're still called the "reds" so I don't consider us an animal, I consider us a color. yay, we're a color. I like being called a red than a bulldog. :cool:

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I was mascot last year for the robotics team and i was a ninja/samurai. My school has 30 different teams with 30 different names, so theres no one mascot/name. However, i believe the official school mascot is a pirate with a pegleg after Peter Stuyvesant.