zippyrifle32 Posted September 29, 2008 Report Share Posted September 29, 2008 found this while stumbling:check out #8 on page 28. The University of Akron Zips’ Zippy the KangarooIf you saw Zippy win the 2007 Capital One National Mascot of the Year award, you probably wondered why Akron had the gloriously befuddling combination of the Zips nickname and a kangaroo mascot. Surely there was some internal logic there, right? Not at all, which makes Zippy all the more intriguing.After a campus-wide contest to name the school’s athletic teams in 1925, freshman Margaret Hamlin won ten dollars for her suggestion of “Zippers” after a popular rubber overshoe of the same name made by local company B.F. Goodrich. The nickname remained the Zippers until 1950, when it was shortened to the Zips.As for Zippy the kangaroo, she became the mascot in 1953 after student council advisor Dick Hansford recommended the idea. According to school’s Web site, Hansford proposed the idea because he enjoyed a contemporary comic strip featuring Kicky the Fighting Kangaroo. This combination of combining the name of a popular rubber shoe and a popular cartoon character deserves more exposure; we can only hope that somewhere out there a fledgling college is naming its teams the Crocs, complete with dancing Marmaduke mascot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZippyRulz Posted September 29, 2008 Report Share Posted September 29, 2008 That's good...nice find. I also liked #5, the null set [] mascot of New College of Florida for their lack thereof. So even when their mascot isn't there...it's there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z.I.P. Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 That's good...nice find. I also liked #5, the null set [] mascot of New College of Florida for their lack thereof. So even when their mascot isn't there...it's there.I haven't seen anything regarding this, but did anyone else see Zippy in his ESPN promo with Adrian Peterson? Saw it in New Mexico two wks ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Zip Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 That's good...nice find. I also liked #5, the null set [] mascot of New College of Florida for their lack thereof. So even when their mascot isn't there...it's there.I haven't seen anything regarding this, but did anyone else see Zippy in his ESPN promo with Adrian Peterson? Saw it in New Mexico two wks ago.This Thread has a link to the actual commercial so you can see it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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