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>It's true that you'll rarely find a correspondence between a college
>team's mascot and its colors. Usually, a team's colors are chosen for
>other reasons than "what are the colors of the animal that we've chose as
>our mascot?" For example, the City of Pittsburgh's colors are black and gold,
>so Pitt's colors were chosen as a variation on that, blue and gold.
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>Some schools had colors before mascots. The Ivy teams were originally
>identified by their colors, and still are to some extent. Hence the
>plethora of color names in the Ivies: Harvard Crimson, Cornell Big Red,
>Dartmouth Big Green, Brown...well, it's the Bruins. Princeton uses Tigers
>to match its distinctive colors.
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>There are exceptions to any sort of theory you try to propose, unfortunately.
>I don't really know what the colors are of Delaware (the Fighting Blue Hens),
>but I can guess. Are Colby's colors white (White Mules)?
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>Minnesota definitely does have a correspondence. A gopher looks like a gold
>squirrel, sort of. Throw in a whole bunch of students of Scandanavian
>descent and you've got "Golden Gophers". (I always kinda liked thinking
>that the mascot name was chosen because there are so many blondes at the
>UofM!).
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>Enough of my blabbering. Gophers, Gophers, GO BIG GOLD!!!
>
>-Martin
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Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Color Voice of the Merrimack Warriors
(Any opinions expressed above are strictly those of the poster.) *HMN*
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