Georgia
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People love their alma mater, and will often try to build a new
school in its image. Case and point- Abraham Baldwin, Georgia's
first president, was a Yale alumnus. He went so far as to build
the early campus buildings based on Yale building blueprints.
Yale's mascot? A bulldog.
The first football mascot of Georgia was a goat, which stood on
the sidelines in a game against Auburn in 1892. He wore a
saddle-like jacket with UG on it, and a hat. Auburn fans were
not impressed, and chanted: "Shoot the billy goat!" Back to the
drawing board.
A number of teams adopted mascots in the early 1920s, and in
this flurry, perhaps a conspiricy among journalists brought
about the bulldog. Atlantic Journal writer Morgan Blake wrote
on November 3, 1920, “The Georgia ‘Bulldogs’ would sound
good because there is a certain dignity about the bulldog, as
well as ferocity.” Rival paper the Atlantic constitution
apparently agreed, using the term bulldog to describe the team
just three days later in a game against Virginia.
People love their alma mater, and will often try to build a new
school in its image. Case and point- Abraham Baldwin, Georgia's
first president, was a Yale alumnus. He went so far as to build
the early campus buildings based on Yale building blueprints.
Yale's mascot? A bulldog.
The first football mascot of Georgia was a goat, which stood on
the sidelines in a game against Auburn in 1892. He wore a
saddle-like jacket with UG on it, and a hat. Auburn fans were
not impressed, and chanted: "Shoot the billy goat!" Back to the
drawing board.
A number of teams adopted mascots in the early 1920s, and in
this flurry, perhaps a conspiricy among journalists brought
about the bulldog. Atlantic Journal writer Morgan Blake wrote
on November 3, 1920, “The Georgia ‘Bulldogs’ would sound
good because there is a certain dignity about the bulldog, as
well as ferocity.” Rival paper the Atlantic constitution
apparently agreed, using the term bulldog to describe the team
just three days later in a game against Virginia.
