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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.
>
>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.
>
>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)?
>
>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!).
>
>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
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