[Mick]

We know why the Stanford mascotnickname was originally the Indians (dating from 1930, per the article below), briefly the Cardinals, almost the Robber Barons and now the Cardinal.
https://gostanford.com/sports/2013/4/17/...0is%20not.

Without looking it up, why is Notre Dame known as the Fighting Irish?

The University's official blah de blah reason:
https://und.com/the-fighting-irish/#:~:t...0tenacity.

Might have been Eamonn de Valera's visit in 1919.  But the earliest mention refers to the Irish immigrant soldiers who fought for the Union side.  The brigade's chaplain was the third president of Notre Dame.
https://www.nd.edu/stories/whats-in-a-na...%20Kilmer.

But the "Fighting Irish" moniker wasn't officially adopted until 1927, shortly after Notre Dame students fought the Klan.  Indiana was a hotbed of the Ku Klux Klan, founded in that state in 1922.  On May 17, 1924, the anti-Catholic Klan decided to visit Notre Dame:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/5037...-klux-klan

[Mick]

We know why the Stanford mascotnickname was originally the Indians (dating from 1930, per the article below), briefly the Cardinals, almost the Robber Barons and now the Cardinal.
https://gostanford.com/sports/2013/4/17/...0is%20not.

Without looking it up, why is Notre Dame known as the Fighting Irish?

The University's official blah de blah reason:
https://und.com/the-fighting-irish/#:~:t...0tenacity.

Might have been Eamonn de Valera's visit in 1919.  But the earliest mention refers to the Irish immigrant soldiers who fought for the Union side.  The brigade's chaplain was the third president of Notre Dame.
https://www.nd.edu/stories/whats-in-a-na...%20Kilmer.

But the "Fighting Irish" moniker wasn't officially adopted until 1927, shortly after Notre Dame students fought the Klan.  Indiana was a hotbed of the Ku Klux Klan, founded in that state in 1922.  On May 17, 1924, the anti-Catholic Klan decided to visit Notre Dame:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/5037...-klux-klan