what is yale university mascot?
Handsome Dan
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 In 1964 , the school permitted exhibition football games to resume , and students financed the purchase of a young English bulldog named Royal Jacket , whom they intended to rename " Hoya " , but he only responded to the callname " Jack " . This breed was chosen to represent the school because of their " tenacity . " The athletics department subsequently adopted as its logo a drawing of a bulldog sporting a blue and gray freshman beanie . The original Jack retired in 1967 , but the name was carried over to his successors . In 1977 , the university began the tradition of dressing up a student in a blue and gray bulldog costume , replacing the live bulldog , though several dogs periodically joined the costumed mascot during the 1980s and 1990s . 

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 Buzz is one of the two official mascots of the Georgia Institute of Technology . Buzz is usually represented as a stylized yellowjacket with yellow @-@ and @-@ black fur , white wings , a yellow head , and antennae . He is almost never drawn with six legs , but rather with arms , legs , hands ( in white gloves ) and feet ( in black Converse high tops ) , like a human . Invented in 1972 and reinvented in 1979 , Buzz reflects the tradition of referring to Georgia Tech students as " Yellow Jackets . " Buzz is also one of Georgia Tech 's emblems and trademarks , one that they defended in a 1998 legal conflict with the Salt Lake Buzz . 

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 The school 's teams are called " Hoyas " , a name whose origin is uncertain . Sometime before 1893 , students well versed in classical languages invented the mixed Greek and Latin chant of " Hoya Saxa " , translating roughly as " what ( or such ) rocks . " The school 's baseball team , then called the Stonewalls , began in 1870 , and football in 1874 , and the chant likely refers to one of these teams . By the 1920s , the term " Hoyas " was used to describe groups on campus , and by 1928 , campus sports writers started using it instead of the older team name , the " Hilltoppers . " The name was picked up in the local publications , and became official shortly after . Jack the Bulldog has been the mascot of Georgetown athletics programs since 1962 , and the school fight song is There Goes Old Georgetown . 

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 When Harvard athletes were suspected in the March 1934 disappearance of Yale 's " ugly bulldog mascot " , Handsome Dan , Yale officials asked Apted to find the animal . He delivered it some days later to Yale 's New Haven , Connecticut campus , though not before the Lampoon took photographs of the canine licking the boots of the John Harvard statue , which had been smeared with hamburger . ( " Dog licks man " , a Crimson headline read . ) ‍ 

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 The mascot is a diamondback terrapin named Testudo , which means " turtle " in Latin . It is also the name of an ancient Roman military tactic , in which soldiers protected their infantry square from projectiles by completely enclosing it with their shields . Derivations of the word have also been used in scientific nomenclature related to the reptile , such as the order Testudine and the family Testudinidae . In 1933 , the graduating class raised funds for a 300 @-@ pound bronze replica of a terrapin . It was initially placed in front of Ritchie Coliseum , which was then the home arena of the basketball team . In 1951 , after being the subject of numerous pranks , the statue was relocated to Maryland Stadium , reinforced with 700 pounds of concrete , and anchored with steel rods . It was moved again in the 1960s , in front of McKeldin Library , and a second replica was placed at Maryland Stadium in 1992 . In the 2000s , under coach Ralph Friedgen , it was a pregame tradition for the football players to walk 200 yards , through what is known as " Terp Alley " , to the locker rooms , and touch the bronze Testudo . 
