Yale's mascot tradition started unofficially in 1890 ... and the fact that he came down with worms before the Harvard-Yale game of the next year did his reputation little good.

A school's mascot and nickname may be interchangeable - or not. Consider Harvard with John Harvard as the mascot and Crimson as the nickname. Now you know. I've read a lot on the Mascot Blog and ...

That the Army athletic officials have none of the stubbornness of their equine mascot, but base their refusal ... assistant director of Athletics, on the Harvard system of allotting tickets ...