Ivy League school mascots. Embarrassing, but I didn’t know any of them. Can you name them?

[marathon]

Without looking them up, how many can you name?
 

Harvard

Yale 

Cornell

Darmouth

Princeton

Brown

Penn

Columbia

 

 

 

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[bierce]

I know several schools' nicknames, but I don't know if they have special mascot names like Bevo.  Why should I?

[MarkInAustin]

Princeton Tiger, Columbia Lion, Yale Bulldog, that's all I have.  Are they correct?  I grew up on a farm not far from Princeton.  If I am not right now I was then about them.

[marathon]

4 minutes ago, MarkInAustin said:

Princeton Tiger, Columbia Lion, Yale Bulldog, that's all I have.  Are they correct?  I grew up on a farm not far from Princeton.  If I am not right now I was then about them.

Princeton Tigers

Columbia Lions

Yale Bulldogs 

Those are correct. You are the leader in the clubhouse…lol

 

 

 

Edited March 18 by marathon

[Gussy Fink-Nottle]

Harvard Crimson

Princeton Tigers

Yale Bulldogs

Penn Quakers

Columbia Lions

Brown Bears

Cornell Big Red

Dartmouth Greenies? don’t know Dartmouth 

[marathon]

1 minute ago, Gussy Fink-Nottle said:

Harvard Crimson

Princeton Tigers

Yale Bulldogs

Penn Quakers

Columbia Lions

Brown Bears

Cornell Big Red

Dartmouth Greenies? don’t know Dartmouth 

Very impressive. Dartmouth Big Green…. close enough.

 

[horns96]

Spent a few years at Penn.  I've seen almost all of the Ivies participate in one sport or another.  Franklin Field and The Palestra are awesome, but back in early aughts, many/most Texas High Schools had better facilities than Penn Baseball.  In fact, I've seen better maintained Little League facilities.

 

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[bierce]

Sorry, I thought we were supposed to come up with Bruno, Handsome Dan, et al.

[Clint Baros]

Brown: Bears

Columbia: Lions

Cornell: Big Red

Dartmouth: Big Green

Harvard: Crimson

Penn: Quakers

Princeton: Tigers

Yale: Bulldogs

 

Mascots are my specialty

[Bobby Burton]

13 hours ago, horns96 said:

Spent a few years at Penn.  I've seen almost all of the Ivies participate in one sport or another.  Franklin Field and The Palestra are awesome, but back in early aughts, many/most Texas High Schools had better facilities than Penn Baseball.  In fact, I've seen better maintained Little League facilities.

 

My daughter is a senior there now. They have better squash facilities than baseball facilities.

[marathon]

1 hour ago, Bobby Burton said:

My daughter is a senior there now. They have better squash facilities than baseball facilities.

Bobby, isn’t it about time for another moderator trivia game? That was fun the last time y’all played.

 

[Caver60]

18 hours ago, marathon said:

Very impressive. Dartmouth Big Green…. close enough.

 

My dad played football at Dartmouth in the 1960s. At the time, they were the Indians. They changed very early on as far as that argument goes, in the 1970s.

 

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[horns96]

10 hours ago, Bobby Burton said:

My daughter is a senior there now. They have better squash facilities than baseball facilities.

@Bobby Burton, be sure to get to Monk's Cafe and Standard Tap when you get back to Philly for graduation!

...and I've seen a lot of cool college sporting events but Penn Relays is top 5 (J. Charles was running the 100m).

[Bobby Burton]

19 hours ago, Caver60 said:

My dad played football at Dartmouth in the 1960s. At the time, they were the Indians. They changed very early on as far as that argument goes, in the 1970s.

 

Stanford, too. Stanford stopped using Indians as their nickname in early 70s.

Interestingly, Jim Plunkett, who won the Heisman for Stanford in 70 or 71, had some Native American ancestry.

[.45s]

On 3/18/2025 at 11:15 AM, Bobby Burton said:

My daughter is a senior there now. They have better squash facilities than baseball facilities.

When I was at Johns Hopkins years ago, the new Denton Cooley rec. center in the medical center had squash courts.  The first squash player I saw there was a woman who was supposedly some national champ as an undergrad at either Penn or Princeton (started with a P).  She smoked the guy she was playing.  That was the first time I saw someone play squash.  I tried it a few times but did not like being in a confined court where someone was swinging a long racquet close to me.  I stuck to racquetball and handball.

[bierce]

I played squash at the rec center on Yongsan when I was about 12.  One player would enter the squash court.  Another player would go into the stands and try to squash the guy on the court with a basketball.

Great game.