My High School Mascot Was A CRAB. --- What was yours?

[arwalden]

Hampton High School - Hampton, VA.

(Collectively, we were called "Crabbers". It's odd, but we learned to love it.)

-- Allen

[jpgray]

1. Tiger. Same as 80% of the other responses, I'm sure. :-) (nt)

[candy]

55. Tiger here too!!!!

[cosmicdot]

77. Tiger born and Tiger bred; and, when I die, I'll

be an ever-loving Tiger dead ...

so, rah rah for Tigers, Tigers rah rah for Tigers, Tigers ...

[cmd]

99. Flying Tiger

A consolidation name.

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. Artisan Bears

Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School.

On a side note... "The Crabs???"... LOL. "Hey honey, I caught the Crabs last night on local TV..." or "boy those Crabs a really itching for the championship this season!"

And what the hell were the cheerleaders called (or know for...) if they team was "The Crabs"

[pagerbear]

3. Confederate army officer

I kid you not. Monroe, NC.

[Beaverhausen]

4. Trojan

Wissahickon, Ambler PA

If I could post an image you'd see something like Brad Pitt in Troy.

Let me tell you the snickers our name caused...

[NuckinFutz]

5. Although I open myself up for endless ridicule...

My high school mascot was a hillbilly...honest, Ozark, AR...he wore overalls with one strap undone/missing, and carried shotgun and a jug of shine.

It used to embarass me until I realized there's not much more frightening than a drunken hillbilly with a shotgun.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

6. Don't feel bad

Mine was a "Woolie". That's right - a sheep.

[NuckinFutz]

17. Well, it might not be threatening,

but at least it's original.

[trof]

32. Mine too: Shades Valley High "Mountaineers"

The Mounties.
Cartoon hillbilly.

[NuckinFutz]

38. I dunno...mountaineer sounds a bit more

dignified than "Hillbilly"...poor fella didn't even have shoes

[trof]

46. A little explanation

Shades Valley was "over the mountain" (Red Mountain) from Birmingham, AL. If you lived "over the mountain" you were automatically of a higher social status than "townies". Or so it was believed.
Anyway, hence the term Mountaineers. I guess the Hillbilly character was the only mascot they could think of. Nobody had BMWs back then.
;-)

[NuckinFutz]

47. I just checked out the alma mater website

Wouldn'tcha know it...they've redrawn the little feller. He still has no shoes, and his shotgun, but he's lost his jug of shine.

[trof]

66. At the black high school

(yes, this was back in the days of "separate, but equal")
the football team was "The Sons of Kong". Mascot was a black ape.
I always wondered if they chose the name for themselvesor if it was some white board of education dude's idea of a sick joke.

[flowomo]

7. Eagles.... Boston College High School

[IronLionZion]

61. Eagles here too, Somerset, PA

And college now: RIT tigers

[adriennel]

8. maple leaf

stupid, stupid mascot. if you can call an inanimate object a mascot.

[Buns_of_Fire]

123. Think THAT'S bad? We were the "Flying L's"!!!

Originality was not the strong suit of the Powers-That-Be in sunny Ft. Lauderdale. At least we weren't known as the Flying Elephant Turds, or something like that. :shrug:

[adriennel]

125. I don't even know what that means!

guess a costume is out of the question : )
I will forever be disturbed by the sight of our principal dancing around the gym in a maroon maple leaf costume (*shudder)

[Blue-Jay]

What sort of crab?

[arwalden]

15. A Chesapeake Bay Crab

[VelmaD]

9. Greenville Lions...Greenville, TX

My junior high was the Cubs. Intermediate school was the Mustangs. And in elementary school it was the Travis Tornados. :)

[underpants]

10. York High Falcons (lame a** name)

Yes arwalden THAT York County (Va.) small world huh?

[arwalden]

18. You Went To YORK?? Wow! Cool!

Gettin' smaller every day.

-- Allen

[underpants]

24. Okay FIRST!

I don't need to hear that at all and SECOND I really don't need to hear that from a gay man. 'Kay?


:bounce:

Just kidding.

[arwalden]

56. I'm Sorry If I Said Something To Offend.

Whatever I said wasn't mean to insult or hurt anyone's feelings. I apologize for not thinking about my words before I typed them and clicked submit.

-- Allen

:bounce:

Just kidding.

[underpants]

58. Ha!

i hope you would get that.

No harm no foul.

[noonwitch]

11. East Kentwood Falcons!

But don't eat a Falcon burger in the cafeteria-they say they really make them out of falcons!

[On the Road]

29. Aiken Falcons --

suburb of Cincinnati.

Over the weekend, my daughter and I happened to drive past Resevior High School in Howard County, Maryland. She told me that the team nickname is the "Dogs." (Sadly, after doing a search I have to report that the real name is the 'gators.")

[5thGenDemocrat]

12. Lumberjacks

Saginaw (MI) Arthur Hill High School -- the only "Lumberjacks" in the state of Michigan. Marty (MSchreader) went there, too, fourteen years after I did.
John
Marty will be at FUNDAY, now just 32 days, 20 hours and seven minutes away. Hope to see you all there.

[blackcat77]

13. Pirate

Madison Heights HS, ANderson IN

Sadly, it no longer exists, One of the other schools in town took over our building and stole our identity.

"Wave the banner for the Pirates
The best team in the land
With our flag of black and scarlet,
We'll lead the pirate band..."

[MissMillie]

14. A Warrior

Narragansett Regional High School (Templeton/Phillipston, MA)

[bbernardini]

16. A Whippet

The dog, of course. Downingtown High School, Downingtown, PA.

[pagerbear]

20. Whippet! Whippet good!

<smirk>

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

60. And here I was thinking

Your mascot was a teenager trying to get high off of cheese whiz bottles. :evilgrin:

[TheMightyFavog]

70. Am I the only one who..

Saw the anme Whippets, and Immediuatley thought of Lake Wobegone, MN?

(Yes, I know, their HS team is called the Leonards.)

[Jokerman]

19. I kid you not...A Hot Dog.

Sometimes represented by a wiener in a bun and sometimes by a docile looking dachshund.

They eventually decided to redo the mascot into a snarling little dog but it was still a dachshund.

[ewagner]

21. Sammy Seminole n/t

[Burma Jones]

22. Magruder Colonels of Rockville, MD

[Bertha Venation]

23. Pegasus

winged horse

Chargers, Edison High School, Huntington Beach, CA

[Spinzonner]

31. Edison Sucks

Anaheim Colonists Rule.

Well, they did way back when. Now they suck too :-)

[Bertha Venation]

41. Are you a current H.S. student?

[Spinzonner]

49. Not Hardly

back in the days of AHS glory (in Sunset League): the 60's

[Bertha Venation]

53. never knew an Anaheim school was in the Sunset League

and Edison didn't open 'til the 70s :shrug:

[NoPasaran]

25. A Rocket

[GOPisEvil]

76. Another Rocket, here!

[NoPasaran]

109. Probably not an IRVIN Rocket though

[GOPisEvil]

113. Nope. A Judson Rocket.

[elfwitch]

126. me too

Judson Rocket - red and gray

[Joe_VB]

26. The Bears

Boyertown Bears....Boyertown, PA. Class of 1978

By the way Allen, I live in Chesapeake, VA. now and my son goes to Great Bridge High (Wildcats)...How does that chant go...

Scratch your ass, Scratch your crotch, Crabbers Crabbers...

[XNASA]

27. The Braves

Here's an image of our old mascot, Lil Joe.

[camero]

28. Panther

North Carroll High School- Hampstead, MD

[m-jean03]

30. A MARINER!!

In other words... A SEA-MAN!!! Sounds like SEMEN!!! BWAHHAHAHAH! :D

[ProfessorGAC]

33. A Light Tower

We had a thing called the Victory Light, which was a pillared cupola at the top of the school. When teams won, they turned the light on at night.

That was the sole logo of the school. No mascot. No nothin'. Almost every float in every homecoming parade had some form of it somewhere on the float.
The Professor

[fudge stripe cookays]

34. I lived in Hampton when I was 4...

Is Blue Bird Gap Farm still there? It was my favorite thing to do, next to Williamsburg and Jamestown.

We lived on....I kid you not....are you ready for this? Roger Peed Drive. I seems like they were duplexes with courtyards. My dad was stationed at Langley.

FSC

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

35. El Dorado Wildcats

WOOHOO!!

[Beware the Beast Man]

36. A Quaker.

A FIGHTING Quaker. An oxymoron. Opposing teams used to throw oatmeal at people during football games. I hated high school.

[JohnLocke]

90. A Fighting Quaker?

:wow:

[boxster]

37. The Cossacks. I attended school in the 70s-80s.

Pretty interesting having a Russian mascot in the middle of the Cold War.

The town was founded by a couple of Russians. Hence, the name of the team mascot. Obviously took on new meaning after WW2, particularly during the Reagan years before the fall of the Soviet Union.

[LosinIt]

39. The Indian River Warriors, and they are still the Warriors

Would be kind of silly if they changed it to something else. My favorite was when we played the Beaver River Beavers. They wouldn't let me make a sign, Lick the Beavers. No school spirit, I swear!

[fudge stripe cookays]

40. Mavericks

M-M-M-A-D!
I-I-S-O-N!
M-A-D-I-S-O-N!
Madison Mavericks!

San Antonio.

[Rowdyboy]

42. Watkins High Tornadoes

whipping through the opposing team.

[corporatewhore]

43. well in Junior high we were the Gay Raiders

i went to minnie b.Gay Jr.high we had lone ranger wannabe as our mascot

[cheezus]

44. Roughriders - the mascot was Teddy Rosevelt on a horse

[arwalden]

59. No Comments... I'll Just Site Here And Smile.

-- Allen

[Angelus]

45. I'm still trying to figure it out.

I graduated in 2000. Our sports teams were called the "Osakis Silverstreaks". I'm still trying to figure this one out...we have the name "silverstreak", supposed to represent a silver lightning bolt or some shit like that, and our mascot was a silver aardvark.

Boggles the mind...:shrug:

[Braden]

48. a Boat

Clipper Ship to be exact

[arwalden]

64. I Like That!

-- Allen

[TrogL]

50. A Trojan

No, I'm not making this up.

Cow-orkers are staring at me because I just spent three minutes ROFLMAO'ing.

[SaveElmer]

51. Orioles

Don't know why...don't see too many Orioles in St. Louis Park, MN..home town of the great Al Franken

[Squeegee]

52. A Totem pole... nt

[phillybri]

54. Garnet Valley Jaguar

n/t

[Richardo]

57. Indians

Yes, a non-PC mascot.

[Deja Q]

62. I was in the class that got to decide the new mascot/colors after the

merger between high schools.

I voted for something rather different (and cynical!!), but the majority of the 'students' borrowed heavily from the Los Angeles Raiders. Black/Silver colors, the little angry dude as the mascot, the lot.

Even the "Roseville Roses", utilizing pink and purple as the colors would have been far more original... Maplewood Mall used pink and purple for its colors, so why not a high school whose athletes were the degenerate scum of the earth and deserved nothing less than humiliation?

[fryguy]

63. The Pelicans

Not the Might Pelicans or the Fighting Pelicans, just the plain old Pelicans -- that's what you get for going to a private school in Brooklyn.....

[PAMod]

65. Black Panthers

Milton High. Except for the late 60's - early 70's; just the Panthers during that time.

[Bunny]

67. Red Devils

as compared to your Blue Devils, and whatnot.

[July]

118. Hey, mine too! n/t

[terrya]

68. Panthers: Eisenhower High School, Decatur, Illinois.

The Eisenhower Panthers. That was us.

[TheMightyFavog]

69. The Coleman High School Cougars Coleman, WI

I still remember our fight song!


(Tune: Washington and Lee Swing)

Oh, when the Cougar team falls into line;
we're gonna win this game and that's a sign!
Were' gonna fight, fight fight for victory!
And have our names go down in high schol history!
We're gonna yell, yell, yell, at every game;
And the results shall always be the same:
Above the rest you'll always hear the name, hear the name;
Ooooooooooffffff Cole-man High!

GO, FIGHT, WIN!

[fishnfla]

82. My dad was a Lena Wildcat

another oconto county boy

ps) how ben sheets 18 k's?

[TheMightyFavog]

83. Ahhhh Lena....

Back in the day, we (and the other schools in the M&O Confrence) called it "Aneltown." Although since Pvt. Frye Died in Iraq, they don't do it as much anymore...

Nowadays they have combined with Marinette Catholic Central under the name, the Titans to form their football team. Catholic Central joined the M&O after the Private school athletic governing body folded. Lena and Catholic Central have their own separate teams for all other sports.

[fishnfla]

87. yes my aunt lives there

they are all quite tore up (all 529 of them in the town)about that death. My aunt who is a feisty old Belgian farmer who is dying, ripped my freeper mom to shreds over that girls death. I heard all about it way done here!

The good old M&O, now thats small town America....

[TheMightyFavog]

97. Does she know Al Hagar?

I worked on his campaign two years ago.

[5thGenDemocrat]

132. You learn something new everyday around here

That's obviously the tune for Arthur Hill's fight song, too, only the words to ours went:

When Hillite varsity men fall in line
We're out to win that game another time
We're out to fight fight fight with all our might
We're out to fight fight fight fight fight and do it right
You ought to see that Hillite varsity
They are the ones who never ever yield
They're going to march right on to victory
Victory for the gold and blue

NOTES: Yes, I know I said we were the Lumberjacks -- but "Hillites" is a perfectly acceptable alternative. Why the heck I even remember the words escapes me, as I graduated GED in November of my junior year (and Saginaw, at the time, had three-year high schools -- ninth grade was a junior high year) -- and I skipped roughly eight of every ten days (hence the GED).
And, Fudge Stripe Cookays (and Allen), I lived in Hampton, VA when I was 17 and 18. I was in the Army at Fort Monroe, and lived for awhile off-post in a house on Mercury Boulevard.
John
It is now 31 days, 22 hours and five minutes to FUNDAY. Everyone is welcome to come regardless of which high school you went to (except for Midland Dow).

[Canuckistanian]

71. The Trojans

Odd shaped football helmets with a "bubble" on top. Very weird.

[Book Lover]

72. A penguin!

I went to an all-female Catholic high school, so the idea was to play off the nun=penguin thing. We were the "Hilltoppers"

You know, this makes me not nostalgic at all. Any other folks from The Mary Louis Academy out there? Let's knock the school together...

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

73. Small world!!! I went to Ferguson in Newport News. We were the Mariners!

(this reply was in response to the Hampton Crabbers response)

[arwalden]

129. Really?! When were you in Newport News?

I graduated from HHS in 78.

== Allen

[pstokely]

74. not my school but

this one has a scottish terrier

http://www.ballstonspa.k12.ny.us/High_School/Seniorguide.htm

[CO Liberal]

75. The Colonials

Morristown, NJ was the military capital of the Colonies for two winters during the American Revolution. So our high school sports teams were called "The Colonials". And our high school radio station (WJSV-FM) used to play "Yankee Doodle" as a musical interlude between shows.

Each year, the seniors would select one guy to be "Mr. Colonial" - he dressed up in a colonial uniform and did routines with the cheerleaders during football games. My senior year, I came in second in the voting, so someone else wore the uniform....

:-(

[flamingyouth]

78. LOL - we were the BEAVERS

And across town at Roosevelt, they were the ROUGH RIDERS. No end to the jokes there...;-)

[ronnykmarshall]

79. Viking

My other high school was a Greyhound.

[VOX]

80. The Warriors.

University High School - West Los Angeles.

The mascot was a Native American posed in dignified profile, but a few years ago, the L.A.U.S.D. ordered a number of city schools with Native American mascots (Braves, Indians, etc.) to change them.

So, in 1996, the mascot was changed to The Wildcats.

I totally understand about offensive mascots (IMO, the Washington Redskins is just plain wrong), but I was sad to see the Warriors go. Seems to me they could have kept the name, but changed the image -- after all, there are Celtic warriors, Samurai warriors, intergalactic warriors, etc.

[Wapsie B]

81. The Warriors

of Wapsie Valley Comunity Schools, Fairbank, Iowa

[Dying Eagle]

84. The Terriors

It is a scary wolf of some sort

[sbj405]

85. Marlin

very odd, considering it was Michigan

[BuddhaGirl]

86. The Monarchs!

our mascot was a lion with a crown..Mater Dei High, Santa Ana CA

[Philostopher]

88. Cardinals.

Felicity-Franklin H.S. The Cardinal is the Ohio state bird. Most of the other county schools had feline mascots -- wildcat, tiger. You can imagine what the cheers sounded like at athletic events. Having a small songbird for a school mascot is kind of like having a permanent 'kick me!' sign tattooed on your back.

The mascot they used when I was there was just a black-line cartoon bird, usually sitting on a branch. They've since attempted to 'rough it up' by giving it a letter sweater and a glare, with a fist in the air -- but it's still a bird. And their sports teams all still suck, most of the time.

[JohnLocke]

89. The Chargers.

Suncoast Chargers.

[neoteric lefty]

112. Riviera Beach?

Thats where I graduted.

[jmowreader]

91. We were the Lumberjacks

The only industry in St. Maries, Idaho, is logging. What the hell else would you name the high school teams? (The junior high teams are the Vandals--not because of any malfeasance on their part or love of the Scandinavian warriors of old, but because the University of Idaho's sports teams are the Vandals.)

Some of you folks may be old enough to remember when Texaco stations had a 50-foot fiberglass gas station attendant out in front of them waving at the passing traffic. (Some of you may be old enough to remember gas station attendants, and not the fiberglass kind either.) St. Maries had two Texaco stations, and one of them bought a Texaco man. A Texaco man came all in pieces in a huge box and you had to put it together yourself, then stand it up with your tow truck. Well, the guys working at the gas station got drunk then put the Texaco man together...with the feet on backwards. Since you apparently couldn't get the feet back off, they donated the Texaco man to the school district, who painted his shirt like a checkered flannel in the school colors of forest green and old gold then put him out in front of the elementary school with the feet buried in concrete. About 20 years later, one of the loggers donated a big fiberglass axe.

[mouse7]

92. arwalden, did you go to Hampton High when the tear gas went off in school?

[arwalden]

104. 1975-1978 ... I don't recall anything like that happening back then.

-- Allen

[sus]

93. we were crabs, too.

crisfield, md.

[ikojo]

94. The LIONS!!!

The orange and black attack!


Woo hooo!

I even got to BE the mascot at one football game as part of my membership in the Pep Club. I wasn't such a big booster of sports but knew that various clubs looked good on a transcript when applying to college.

[Dan-W]

95. No mascot runnin' round.

Pinkerton Astros, as in Astronauts. Alan B. Shepard, Jr. America's first "man in space".

[Reverend_Smitty]

96. Any Spartans in the house?

Thats what we were, the Spartans

[Crowdance]

131. Spartans here, too!

But I really hated high school, so it gives me the creeps to think about it.

[Shananigans]

98. Blue Jackets!

Yup...not too sure what a bluejacket is supposed to be or where it came from, but we were the Hibbing Blue Jackets. For some odd reason Popeye was our mascot... no, I do not know how that works.

Am I the only school who had "blue jackets" as it's mascot type thing...or isn't that the mascot...
hmmmm

[UrbScotty]

100. Falcons

We're the Falcons of Kentwood High School and we're going all the way!

...

[DoctorBombay]

101. Where are the Beavers?!

That was mine

[Mobius]

102. Your mascot was an STD?

:shrug:
I forgot what highschool was, but UWMadison's was a badger.

[KamaAina]

103. The now-extinct Crimson Eagle

Andrew Warde HS, Fairfield, CT.

The town's two high schools merged a while back; Warde became Fairfield High School, home of the Mustangs.

http://www.fairfield.k12.ct.us/fairfieldhs/

As for hated rival Roger Ludlowe, it became -- a community center! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! If only affluent Fairfield allowed toxic waste dumps...

[neoteric lefty]

105. Charger!

not a lightning bolt but a knight on a horse. But we wern't very good at sports :)

[TheWizardOfMudd]

106. Terrorist

The Smithville Terrorists! We killed the opposition!

Heh. ;)

[gauguin57]

107. lions

*yawn*

I always envied the Boiling Springs Bubblers!

And I always wanted to see the S.C. Fighting Gamecocks play the USC Trojans, so the headline could be 'Cocks Break Trojans!

[Rhiannon12866]

108. That's really silly

Mine, that I remember, in public high school, was a Spartan, equally silly. I remember nothing about my boarding school. They must have had sports, but I didn't attend. At my college, they were called the Continentals, like from the Revolutionary War. Needless to say, we had few winning teams!:D

[tsakshaug]

110. Mounties

as in Dudly Do Right

[nonconformist]

111. The Huskies and the Wildcats

Since I went to two differnt high schools, I listed both.

[MadHound]

114. Oh, I've got you all beat for a silly mascot

Went to Hickman High School in Columbia Mo. Their mascot, the Kewpies! That's right, as in the kewpie doll. In fact Hickman is the only Kewpie doll mascot in the world. Lore has it that we were getting our ass kicked in Bball back in the early twentieth century, but according to a local reporter, the team was still "smiling like a kewpie doll" Great:eyes: It does seem to help the sports teams though, making them try harder just to prove they're not wusses.

The few, the proud, the Kewpies!

[DS1]

115. A color. Maroon. The RHS Maroons. Take it away DU...

:eyes:

[GOPisEvil]

117. Same with Austin High School here.

What a bunch of maroons...

[DS1]

135. Marooned in the other team's end-zone

or their own, whichever is worse <- not a big football fan

:shrug:

[wysimdnwyg]

116. Bow before my greatness - We were the Burros!

Yes, that's right, my HS mascot was a donkey. Go ahead and admit that we had the coolest mascot possible.
:kick:

[Lasira]

119. the most un-PC mascot ever...

I went to a private Lutheran high school, and our mascot was (this is SO wrong) the Crusader! That's right, a soldier on a horse with a sword and a huge cross on his shield. Because the Crusades were something to be proud of and model ourselves after...

:wtf:

[SnohoDem]

120. A marlin

"The Marlins". I never even considered loving it.

[nini]

121. Banning High School PILOTS - as in the seafaring type

named after the captains that piloted the ships in and out of the L.A. Harbor.



We're bad to the bone baby!


:-)

[libertad]

122. Some sort of totem pole thingie. We were called the Islanders.

[Cursive_Knives512]

124. Wildcats

I'm a "WG-'unit' Wildcat." Meow.

[Bombero1956]

127. a Beaver too

The Putnam Beavers because we were a vocational high school.

[curse10]

128. Another Trojan

[RetroLounge]

130. Demons

Maine East High School, Park Ridge Illinois...

RL

[SOteric]

133. Panthers

[histohoney]

134. Panthers, but for more creative minds

here in Texas we also have the:
Winter Blizzards
Hamlin Pied Pippers
Amarillo Sandies
and to many more to mention

[President Jesus]

136. Mine was the worst! It was a fuckin' Hatter

Yes, a person who makes hats!

Danbury Hatters!

[MAlibdem]

137. Wolverine