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Cochise College, Douglas, Arizona (Apaches) – Community College. Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kansas (Fighting Indians) – Tribal university. Lewis–Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho (Warriors) – Logo features Lewis and Clark, use of Warriors nickname deemed respectful by Tribal leaders.
The practice of deriving sports team names, imagery, and mascots from Indigenous peoples of North America is a significant phenomenon in the United States and Canada. The popularity of stereotypical representations of American Indians in global culture has led to a number of teams in Europe also adopting team names derived from Native Americans.
This is an incomplete list of U.S. college nicknames. If two nicknames are given, the first is for men's teams and the second for women's teams, unless otherwise noted.
Conference affiliations are current for the 2024 season. The list includes all current and former FBS, Division I-A, Division I, University Division, and Major-College football teams since 1946 when the NCAA started having continuous records of major football teams. In the 1940s, 50s, and 60s major-status was only based on whether the team had ...
Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, a select mixed choir formed in 1971. Harvard Glee Club, the oldest college chorus in America, founded in 1858. Radcliffe Choral Society, founded in 1898, an all-women chorus. Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, which consists of faculty, staff, community members, as well as graduate students and undergraduates.
Many American sports team names and mascots are based upon or use religious symbolism. The majority are scholastic teams at institutions founded by various denominations of Christianity, both Catholic and Protestant. Saints is the most popular of these names not only at religious schools but public schools.
The following table is a sortable listing of the oldest college sports conferences (organizations of athletic teams at the collegiate level) in the United States of America. This includes U.S. collegiate sports organizations of NCAA Divisions I, II, and III; as well as various sports including Rowing, Cricket, Basketball, Hockey, Wrestling ...
B. Baby Blue – secondary mascot of the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens. Baby Jay and Big Jay – co-mascots of the Kansas Jayhawks. Baldwin and Gladys – co-mascots of the Mary Baldwin University Fighting Squirrels. Baldwin the Eagle – mascot of the Boston College Eagles. Baldwin Jr – inflatable version of Baldwin the Eagle at Boston College.