When it comes to replacing a mascot, you sort of have to feel for North Dakota.
UNO had to replace Ouampi the Indian in 1971.
The Omaha World-Herald had a list of the submissions on Sept. 23 of that year. The students and faculty were then able to vote the following week, with the winner announced at the homecoming game on Oct. 9.
Some of the submissions were clever, some were rather pedestrian, and others seem particularly "head scratching."
Here were the submissions:
Red Devils
Red Demons
Super Devils
Raiders
Wildcats
Mavericks
Prairie Dogs
Spartans
Plainsmen
Omahawks
Pumas
Unicorns
Omahogs
Students
Strawberries
Road Runners
Hombres
Sodbusters
Engineers
Outlaws
Gorillas
Oven Birds
Owls
Oysters
Penguins
Trappers
Scooners
Flashes
Amigos
Messengers
Pintos
Thrashers
Scouts
Beefeaters
Rustlers
Maize Men
Broncos
Dodgers
Helmsmen
Toreadors
Packers
Cavemen
Head Hunters
Harvestmen
Cosmopolitans
While "Maverick" might not be the flashiest moniker for athletics, it is a far sight better than "Strawberries" or "Students"...
"Omahawk" would have been fun merely for the fact that we could refer to our hockey program as "Omahawkey."
I wasn't sure what an "Oven Bird" was exactly (I thought of Thanksgiving when I saw the name). Apparently, it is small songbird of the warbler family.
The ultimate finalists were Mavericks, Unicorns, Demons and Road Runners. "Maverick" beat "Unicorn" by 51 votes.
http://unoalumni.org/retrospect-unicorns
The winner in 1971 received $50 from the student senate.
I wonder how the person who submitted "Maverick" spent their Ulysses S. Grant?
There's a lot of great unused suggestions here, North Dakota.
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