12-06-2011, 05:28 PM
That period includes my time on campus, too (Class of '76), and I don't recall being called the Cardinals. So I checked my copies of The Quad and lo and behold, the sports write-ups refer to the Card, Cards, Cardinal and an occasional Cardinals. But ... I never really considered yearbook staff to be true journalists, so I checked my copy of One Hundred Years Of Headlines, a sort of Best of The Daily published in The Daily's centennial year. Anyway, there it was, at the top of the front page on Dec. 5, 1975:
Voters axe Indian mascot;
Robber Barons selected
Mark Simonian (who was editor then, I think) wrote that the present symbol, Cardinals, came in fourth in the voting.
(I still have a Robber Barons T-shirt somewhere from the Great Mascot Campaign. Personal favorite was the Sequoias.)
I guess I always associated the plural Cardinals with the bird and the singular term with the color, and since we weren't birds ...
Voters axe Indian mascot;
Robber Barons selected
Mark Simonian (who was editor then, I think) wrote that the present symbol, Cardinals, came in fourth in the voting.
(I still have a Robber Barons T-shirt somewhere from the Great Mascot Campaign. Personal favorite was the Sequoias.)
I guess I always associated the plural Cardinals with the bird and the singular term with the color, and since we weren't birds ...
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