Word: mascot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building below passed the years in revelry, potation, and occasional attempts at satire. Yet more damaging than his long and unrelieved exposure to the elements was the loss of Ibis' personal dignity. Unable to stir from the Lampoon's roof, he became a mere symbol--a ridiculous mascot whose captivity was somehow to be a fitting embodiment of the edifice upon which he stood...
Like that episode of Brady Bunch when Greg steals the opposing team's mascot goat, swimmers have their own team symbols waiting to be snatched...
...profile of an Indian, complete with feather, gold earring and big nose, which has served as an unofficial mascot for two decades, that is the center of attention. In 1974, Native Americans at Dartmouth asked for the abolition of the Indian mascot, and the administration agreed to a change. But ever since, with the football season and the beginnings of the right wing student-run Dartmouth Review fall term turns into the Indian wars. Fraternities, the Review and the football team--to the great displeasure of the athletic director--have attacked "liberals" who support the 1974 decision for destroying school...
Fleer Corp., of Philadelphia, one of the three heavy-hitting companies in the business, sells a card picturing Glenn Hubbard, animal-loving second-baseman for the Braves, with a giant python draped across his shoulders. Donruss Co., of Memphis, has issued a card honoring the San Diego Chicken, former mascot of the Padres, complete with a bio on the back that tells when the big bird was hatched: April...
...close to being the most humongous man on the team. Several of the Nebraska linemen resemble telephone booths with 19-in. TV sets on top. At 6 ft. 3 in., 270 Ibs., straw-haired and bottle-jawed, Steinkuhler is the tobacco-spitting image of "Herby Husker," Nebraska's mascot in bib overalls. Pro-football scouts are afraid to say how good he is, because he may be the best offensive lineman they have ever seen. "In Steinkuhler, Fryar and Rozier," says Dallas Cowboy personnel man Gil Brandt, "Nebraska might have three players drafted in the first ten." That such...