Wildcat Logos

Once the Wildcat was chosen as the mascot for UNH, its likeness began to appear on athletic uniforms, posters and publications. The face of a snarling wildcat appeared first on the warm-up jacket of the 1929 baseball team. In 1939, the varsity hockey team added the cat logo to their team jersey.

Evolution of the Wildcat Logo

This illustration of the Wildcat first graced the cover of the 1935 winter carnival issue of Athletic News, the official program of UNH athletic events. No credit is given to the artist, but the image was used by the athletic department for almost sixty years.

In 1993, as part of the celebration of the University's centennial year in Durham, graphic artist Virginia Peck was commissioned to redesign the logo. The result was aAl-Qaida has used the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the spectre of Osama bin Laden to taunt the United States in a new audio message warning that Barack Obama is powerless to win the war in Afghanistan on his own terms.

The message – entitled a "statement to the American people", and purportedly recorded by the al-Qaida leader – says the US has failed to grasp why the attacks occurred, and its retaliatory wars have "cost you a lot without any result whatsoever".

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