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Raider Red is a Wild West character with an oversized cowboy hat. He carries two guns which he fires into the air after Texas Tech scores. [1] Jim Gaspard, a member of the Texas Tech Saddle Tramps student spirit organization, created the original design for the Raider Red costume based on a character created by Lubbock, Texas, cartoonist and former mayor Dirk West. [2]
Two of his characters would eventually be officially adopted by their respective universities: Texas Tech's Raider Red and the University of Nebraska's Herbie Husker. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] West drew a semi-weekly one-panel comic in the Avalanche-Journal' s sports section where he would lampoon college mascots and coaches alike, as well as the stereotypes ...
Raider Red. Texas Tech's other mascot, Raider Red, is a more recent creation.Beginning with the 1971 football season, the Southwest Conference forbade the inclusion of live animal mascots to away games unless the host school consented.
The newest Masked Rider and Raider Red have been inducted into one of Texas Tech's longest-standing spirit traditions. Texas Tech welcomes new Masked Rider, Raider Red mascots for the 2024-25 ...
Sep 14, 2024; Lubbock, Texas, USA; Texas Tech Red Raiders cheerleaders arrive before a game between the North Texas Mean Green and Texas Tech at Jones AT&T Stadium and Cody Campbell Field.
In 1953, Texas Tech football coach DeWitt Weaver approached a student named Joe Kirk Fulton about becoming the Masked Rider. DeWitt's Red Raiders were 10-1-0 in football and headed to Jacksonville, Florida for the Gator Bowl. At the time, Texas Tech was hoping to be invited to join the Southwest Conference. All the other teams had a mascot, and ...
The end of the regular season is fast approaching, and the Texas Tech basketball's team outlook has become a bit cloudy.. February was a brutal month for the Red Raiders, featuring a team-wide ...
The Red Raider Men's golf team is the most successful sport at Texas Tech as it has made the most appearances in the NCAA tournament. On the other side is women's golf JoJo Robertson, has been the head coach of the Women's golf team for Texas Tech since 2009. [ 25 ]