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College Sports Traditions: Picking Up Butch, Silent Night, and Hundreds of Others

College Sports Traditions: Picking Up Butch, Silent Night, and Hundreds of Others

Beck, Stan
Wilkinson, Jack

Hardcover

Sports General

ISBN10: 0810891204
ISBN13: 9780810891203
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: Sep 19 2013
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.67
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Every year since 1961, football and basketball players at Middlebury College in Vermont pick up their wheelchair-bound fan, Butch, and bring him to the stadium sidelines to watch their games. At John Brown University, the volleyball team distributes candy to fans before each match. For years, fans attending a University of Maryland football game rubbed the bronze statue of their terrapin mascot, Testudo. Traditions like these are visible statements of school loyalty, and they are part of why college sports are unforgettable.

College Sports Traditions: Picking Up Butch, Silent Night, and Hundreds of Others details not only the well-known traditions of major universities, but also the obscure customs of smaller schools. Approximately 1,200 traditions are captured, covering almost every college sport. It depicts such traditions as The Ohio State University's Script Ohio, University of Kansas's Waving the Wheat, Linfield College's End Zone Couches, and even a list of traditions that involve streaking. The wide variety of traditions covered in this book are grouped thematically, including:

Before the gameDuring the gameAfter a scoreAfter the game Mascot traditionsPreseason traditionsTraditions probably not university sanctionedRivalriesYells, cheers, and chants

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