"F~A~R~V~A: The Original Bastard" <flyhighfreeebird@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> any school that had nathan bedford forrest as a mascot is okay by me.
Really? I always thought that in the early days of athletics at Middle
Tennessee State University, the teams were known by several nicknames.
Among
these were Teachers, Normalites, and Pedagogues. In 1934, it was decided
that the school needed a specific nickname.
During football season that year, the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal held
a
contest to name the team. The late Charles Sarver, then a Middle
Tennessee
football player and later principal at White County High School in Sparta,
Tenn., won the $5 prize for his entry of "Blue Raiders."
Sarver later indicated he had "borrowed" the nickname of the Colgate Red
Raiders, but substituted MTSU Blue for Colgate Red. Ever since then,
Middle
Tennessee athletic teams have been known as the Blue Raiders.
For a time, the "unofficial" mascot for the Blue Raiders was a costumed,
cartoonlike dog. A reasonable facsimile of a bluetick hound, the affable
character was dubbed "Ole Blue."
On January 17, 1998, the current mascot, "Lightning," was born. The mascot
was unveiled, along with an attractive eye-catching logo, at a basketball
game in Murphy Center. The introduction of Lightning gave a new identity
to
the nickname Blue Raiders.
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