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The original mascot for the Kansas Jayhawks was a bulldog. In 1912, the Jayhawk was first seen in a cartoon by Henry Maloy in The University Daily Kansan. [4] In November 1958, the Jayhawk became the official mascot for Kansas University. [5] The "Jayhawk" idea came from the combination of a blue jay and a sparrow hawk. [4]
When the University of Kansas (KU) fielded its first football team in 1890, the team was called the Jayhawkers. [48] Over time, the name was gradually supplanted by its shorter variant, and KU's sports teams are now exclusively known as the Kansas Jayhawks. Historic descriptions of the ornithological origin of the "Jayhawker" term have varied.
The Jayhawk appears in several Kansas cheers, most notably, the "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk" chant in unison before and during games. [6] In the traditions promoted by KU, the jayhawk is said to be a combination of two birds, "the blue jay, a noisy, quarrelsome thing known to rob other nests; and the sparrow hawk, a stealthy hunter." [7]
They came up with "Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, Go KU", [1] repeated three times. By 1889, "Rock Chalk" had replaced the “Rah, Rah!” Rock Chalk is a transposition of “chalk rock,” a type of limestone that exists in the Cretaceous-age bedrocks of central and western parts of the state and which is similar to the coccolith -bearing chalk of the ...
The Kansas Jayhawks keep on winning. This time, KU earned its seventh win of the season on Saturday. The Jayhawks (7-2, 4-2 Big 12) beat Iowa State (5-3, 4-2) 28-21 on Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium.
In 1970 Amy Hurst saw a Jayhawk bumper sticker depicting Big Jay and hatchlings, which inspired her to create a new mascot. [3] After talking to a co-worker who was a Big Jay and getting approval from the KU Alumni Association she created Baby Jay.
A new book by Jeff Gueilder, who started for Kansas in its 1988 NCAA title-game victory, delivers stories of success and failure. In new book, former KU Jayhawk Jeff Gueldner shares good times ...
Jordan Guskey covers University of Kansas Athletics at The Topeka Capital-Journal. He is the National Sports Media Association’s sportswriter of the year for the state of Kansas for 2022.