Saturday, December 12, 2020

Article headlined "24 old-timey sailor animal logos, ranked", HOWEVER ranking is SUSPECT as it does NOT include the sailor hat wearing Linfield Wildcat!

Article headlined  "24 old-timey sailor animal logos, ranked", HOWEVER ranking is SUSPECT as it does NOT include the sailor hat wearing Linfield Wildcat! 

 


(Photos show two Linfield Wildcat football helmet decals. The "looking at you" (crossed eyes) version which, in recent years, was succeeded by the current (no crossed eyes) version.)

This (link below) IS FROM MARCH 2020

"24 old-timey sailor animal logos, ranked"

https://www.bannersociety.com/2020/3/11/21166316/sailor-hat-animal-college-logo-mascots

So, who/what's missing? The Linfield Wildcat wearing his sailor hat! Wildcat salutes you, but not the person who compiled this list.

=Note that #5 Oxy (of LA/Eagle Rock, Calif.) and #25 Washington U (of St. Louis, Missouri) are NCAA DIII schools ...

Be sure to read this (link below)  ...

https://www.oxy.edu/magazine/winter-2013/multiple-personalities

... note this  "carved out a large niche of the ­college decal market, alongside Potter Manufacturing of Eugene, Ore. (founded in 1923)..."

Potter Decals of Eugene created/produced the famous Linfield (wearing sailor hat) Wildcat logo.

And, be sure to read this, too:

"Linfield football helmets have rolled with the times; Wildcat decals on helmets part of tradition since 1963"

http://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2011/10/linfield-helmets-have-rolled-with-times.html

Might as well read this, also:

"1,875 college nicknames, mapped and charted"

https://www.bannersociety.com/2020/3/9/21150913/college-mascot-nicknames