The Centurions. Most famous alumni? In this crowd, probably the one who is a member of the Eq dev team. I was his lab partner in Chemistry. Marcus Allen went to my Junior High, but he went over the hill to high school as mine did not yet exist at that time.
--- Total thread hijack --- ignore if irritated...
Okay - you didn't ask for it but here it is - the list of college athletic mascots which are not, in fact, plural:
The 'Berg - Heidelberg College (Tiffton Ohio)
Cardinal - Stanford (Palo Alto, CA)
Crimson Storm - Southern Nazarene University (Bethany, OK)
Crimson Tide - University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL)
Crimson Wave - Calumet College of St. Joseph (whiting, IN)
Garnet - Swarthmore (Swarthmore, PN)
Golden Hurricane - University of Tulsa (Tulsa, OK)
Gold Rush - Xavier University of Louisiana (New Orleans, LO)
Green Terror - McDaniel College (Westminster, Maryland)
Green Wave - Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Inferno - Alverno College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Irish - University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana)
Norse - Luther College (Decorah, Iowa)
Pride - Hofstra University (Hempstead, New York)
Pride - Peace College (Raleigh, North Carolina)
Pride - Greensboro College (Greensboro, North Carolina)
Pride - Regis College (Weston, Massachusetts)
Pride - Springfield College (Springfield, Massachusetts)
Purple Pride - Nyack College (Nyack, New York)
Purple Storm - Crown College (St. Bonifacius, Minnesota)
All verified below here:
Red Flash - Saint Francis College of Pennsylvania (Loretto, Pennsylvania)
Red Storm - St. John's University (Jamiaca, New York)
The Rock - Slippery Rock University (Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania)
#Spirit - Seton Hill College (Greensburg, Pennsylvania)
Storm - Keuka College (Keuka Park, New York)
Storm - Lake Erie College (Painsvilla, Ohio)
Storm - Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa)
Thunder - Tri-State University (Angola, Indiana)
Thunder - Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois)
Thundering Herd - Marshall University (Huntington, West Virginia)
This from an ongoing discussion with a friend of mine from high school over an article in the newspaper which cited three, yes three, as the number of "major" college athletics teams with singluar team nicknames.
(Note: plural words like "sox" which do not happen to end in "s" are excluded.)
I think the "Red Flash" and the "Garnet" are the most amusing, personally. Red Flash just makes me think of hot flash, and garnet - a glassey silicate material?
But my question is, which three was the newspaper refering to as "major"? Stanford, Notre Dame and Alabama?
By the way, feel free to add your college or correct any of these. I have not verified them all by hand. I forget what my pound sign meant - I think maybe it was only the Women's team is called that? Or is it totally wrong?
---end hyjack