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The Green Wave Club, formerly known as the Tulane Athletics Fund, is the official fundraising arm of Tulane Green Wave, supporting Green Wave student-athletes in their academic, athletic, and community pursuits by providing unrestricted annual funds to the Athletics department.
A month later, after the new nickname gained acceptance, the student newspaper referred to the team as the Green Wave in a game report for Tulane-Mississippi A&M. By the end of the 1920 season ...
Tulane Green Wave, known as the "Olive and Blue" from 1893 to 1919, and referred to as the "Greenbacks" by the student-run The Tulane Weekly in 1919. Became known as the "Green Wave" from 1920 after the song "The Rolling Green Wave" published in the Tulane Hullabaloo. [160]
The Green Wave won its first six games for the school's best start since 1934, but the highlight of the year was the season finale with LSU. In that game, the Green Wave beat the Tigers for the first time since 1948, taking a 14–0 win before a beyond-capacity crowd of 86,598 in old Tulane Stadium.
Tulane Green Wave men's basketball at Avron B. Fogelman Arena in Devlin Fieldhouse. Tulane's men's basketball team played its first game on December 9, 1905. [3]In March 1976, the Green Wave enticed Syracuse coach Roy Danforth--one year removed from taking the Orange to their first Final Four--to succeed Charles Moir as Green Wave coach when Moir left for the same position at Virginia Tech.
Tulane has played in 17 official bowl games, with the Green Wave garnering a record of 7–10. Tulane also played in the Bacardi Bowl in 1909, playing the Havana Athletic Club, losing 11–0. This was not sanctioned by the NCAA, and thus the Green Wave do not recognize the bowl appearance. Notably, Tulane's first bowl win was the inaugural ...
Tulane avoided a shutout when Thompson tossed a 16-yard TD pass to Mario Williams. The Green Wave quarterback finished 11 of 29 for 125 yards and three interceptions. Takeaways
Tulane University's mascot and nickname, the Green Wave, owes its origins to a song published in The Hullabaloo in October 1920. The paper's editor at the time, Earl Sparling, wrote and published a football song called "The Rolling Green Wave" in support of the "Olive and Blue" (as the team was officially known at the time).