After Samantha's master had graduated, students gave up on the idea of a basset hound mascot. George was not the first canine to represent Vanderbilt football. The Commodore squad, led by first-year coach Dan McGugin, was proud of their bulldog mascot named Bull. But Bull did not appear to have the courage as George, and was improperly dismissed after an incident. During Thanksgiving week in , Vanderbilt was scheduled to play rival Sewanee in Nashville.
During that week this headline appeared in the Tennessean:. This is the entire Tennessean story printed in on Bull the Vanderbilt football mascot:. Vanderbilt would defeat Sewanee to cap an undefeated season.
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And did anyone think to check the bottom of the coal chute for poor ole Bull? Dan Blake is top row, second from the left. The Tennessean reported on the incident: When Ebony Masterpiece, the Tennessee walking horse which has become the university's mascot, pranced up and down the sidelines, George darted across the field and appeared to challenge him in animal jargon.
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During that week this headline appeared in the Tennessean: This is the entire Tennessean story printed in on Bull the Vanderbilt football mascot: The members of the team say they don't care if he never comes back. Bull was placed in a pen with a fox terrier of some fighting reputation. The former old Gold and Black mascot is not a full grown canine, sad it was thought it would be about an even proposition to buck him against a smaller fighting dog of reputation. It was thought at first that this was because he did not want to fight an opponent of such comparatively small proportions.
He did not want to chow another dog into doll rags without giving the animal a chance for his life. The fox terrier was not so backward and attacked Bull. In self-defense the bull pup was forced to fight, and he began with some very fierce growls and some terrible-looking grimaces.
But it seems that growls and grimaces were is main stock in trade. They were soon changed to yelps and whines.
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Bull tucked his tail and the last few seconds of the scrimmages was a noble effort on the part of Bull to get as far away from the scene of trouble as possible. Whether the canine recognized his disgrace or not may never be known, but it is probable that he did, and that he greatly assisted in helping himself to disappear. In this case Phillips of Sewanee did not have as much to do with this incident as some might think.
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He thought it best not to tell the story and pledged two or three others who saw the imitation fight, to secrecy. The only thing he did was to announce the disappearance of Bull on the following afternoon when the squad came out for practice. It was noticed that Dan was not inclined to go into details, but it was thought this was because of his grief over the loss of the dog.
This finally became a conviction and Dan was pressed to tell what it was. The dog was named Jonathan after Colonial Gov. Tuffy is a Tamaskan Dog that originated from Finland.
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Although they have the appearance of a wolf, they actually contain no recent wolf ancestry. After 9 years of service as the mascot, Diesel retired after the season. After speaking at commencement in , comedian and canine enthusiast Bill Cosby was inspired to give Carnegie Mellon its first live mascot, Scotty! Bruiser was born in Oklahoma and is one of the newest mascots on our list.
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He debuted at Adrian College in Rocky is a rescued Victorian Bulldog. UNC Asheville had four previous bulldogs who served as the mascot from to the early s. Vic and Tory are both rescue greyhounds. Want more poop like this? Sign up for our BarkPost newsletter!