Dartmouth College Indian Mascot
Students soon followed suit.
Dartmouth college indian mascot. Keggy the keg is the unofficial mascot of dartmouth college an ivy league college in hanover new hampshire united states. The dartmouth college big green are the varsity and club athletic teams representing dartmouth college an american university located in hanover new hampshire. Keggy is an anthropomorphic beer keg created in 2003 by members of the college humor magazine the dartmouth jack o lantern to fill the mascot void that followed the abolition of the indian mascot in 1971. List of college sports team names and mascots derived from indigenous peoples.
Chief wahoo and the redskins may be the most prominent examples but many teams have mascots names and practices that incorporate or mimic native cultures. Indigenous peoples month student organizers from nap native americans at dartmouth nad and hokupa a the hawaiian club are working together to present a harvest dinner a pig roast a creative writing workshop a film a panel on climate change a fashion and art showcase a frybread baking contest a hula dance class and a cooking lesson. Other days he would be fruit bat a garbage can or a sausage. Every day gerald cross class of 1912 official dartmouth mascot wearer would wake up and don a costume.
Basically he would be anything that happened to be in his room at the time. Dartmouth s teams compete in the ivy league conference of the national collegiate athletic association ncaa division i as well as in the ecac hockey conference. Stanford had the indian as its mascot from 1930 to 1972. Some days he was a maple tree.
Jump to navigation jump to search. 1930 football ticket stub depicting the former stanford indian mascot. Although founded as a school to educate native americans. Although dartmouth college had not used an indian mascot for many years yale university printed a program for the 2016 game commemorating its 100th game against dartmouth showing historical program covers featuring depictions of native americans that are now viewed as racist.
Dartmouth college the ivy league school abandoned its unofficial indian mascot in the 1970s in favor of going by the longtime nickname the big green.