A bit about Western Carolina:
Colors: Purple and Gold
Mascot: Catamounts
Location: Cullowhee, NC
Conference: Southern Conference (Div I-AA)
Last Meeting : Georgia won 48-0 (1991)
All-Time Record: 1-0, Georgia leads
Did
you know?
What is a Catamount? Western Carolina University's unique
mascot and nickname for its athletics teams seems to always bring about the
same question when the Catamounts play on the road ... "What exactly is
a Catamount?"
Webster's Dictionary defines "catamount" as "any of various
wild cats such as a cougar or lynx." Cats of the catamount variety, including
the bobcat, have roamed the southern Appalachian Mountains, where Western Carolina
University is located, for years.
The nickname evolved from a contest that was held on the Cullowhee campus in
1933. At the time, the school was called "Western Carolina Teachers College"
and its teams were known as "the Teachers." Everyone on campus was
invited to participate in the naming of the teams. The usual names were suggested
-- Bears, Indians, Panthers. However, the college wanted an unusual name, a
name that few others had and that everyone would not copy.
The contest came down to Mountain Boomers, a small ground squirrel that scampers
about the woods and is extremely difficult to catch, and Catamounts. The latter
was the favorite of Head Football Coach C.C. Poindexter and was the nickname
chosen. Poindexter wanted his players to be Catamounts with "fierce spirit,
savage attacks, and lightning quick moves."
Western Carolina University is the only one of two NCAA schools playing under
the Catamount moniker. Western is the only football-playing school in the nation
using the nickname "Catamounts," with the University of Vermont being
the only other school using that nickname.
Source: WCU
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