A bit about Oklahoma State:
Colors: Orange and Black
Mascot: Cowboys/Cowgirls
Location: Stillwater, OK
Conference: Big Twelve
Last Meeting (as Oklahoma A&M): Georgia won 20-7 (1947)
All-Time Record: 2-0, Georgia leads
Did
you know?
What's behind OK State's mascot, Pistol Pete? From the 1890s
on, Oklahoma A&M sports teams had been referred to as the Agriculturists
or Aggies, the Farmers, and officially but unpopularly, the Tigers. But by 1924
Charles Saulsberry, sports editor of the Oklahoma City Times, and other writers
who regularly covered college events had begun to refer to Stillwater's teams
as the A&M Cowboys. The Athletic Council authorized Athletic Director Edward
C. Gallagher to have 2,000 balloons printed, "Oklahoma Aggies - Ride 'Em
Cowboy" for sale at football games in 1926.
The nickname was quickly adopted, yielding a genuine identity that had long
been lacking on campus and around the community. Around 1923, an early U.S.
deputy marshal, Frank B. "Pistol Pete" Eaton, headed Stillwater's
Armistice Day Parade. At the parade's end, the search for a replacement for
the Tigers was over.
The spirited image of a tough, proud, self-reliant cowboy triggered by Eaton
became a cartoon drawing. The new mascot was easily woven into campus life,
but it was not until 1984 that official sanction would be given to the emblem
and its "Pistol Pete" moniker. By then, the Cowboys had already been
settled into 60 years of vocabularies and print, spilling over into the general
references to the student body, alumni, faculty and fans.
Source: OK
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