• 3-0 Tulane @ 3-0 Furman (Nov. 15th)

 #93727  by FU Hoopla
 Tue Nov 12, 2024 1:02 pm
To those wondering about the green wave origin....

From 1893 to 1919, the athletic teams of Tulane were known as the Olive and Blue. In 1919, the Tulane Weekly, one of Tulane's many student newspapers at the time, began calling the football team the Greenbacks.

On Oct. 20, 1920, Earl Sparling, the editor of the Tulane Hullabaloo, wrote a football song which was printed in the newspaper. The song was titled "The Rolling Green Wave." Although the name was not immediately adopted, it began to receive acceptance. A month later, a report of the Tulane-Mississippi A&M game in the Hullabaloo referred to the team as the Green Wave.

By the end of the season, the Hullabaloo was using the term Green Wave to refer to all Tulane athletic teams, as were many daily papers, although as late as 1923, the name Greenbacks was still in use.

In its infancy, Tulane's mascot was depicted as a pelican riding on a surf board. The surfing pelican image lasted for more than 50 years.

The "Greenie" was adopted in 1955. It was created by John Chase, a local cartoonist who drew the covers of the Tulane football program and those of many teams throughout the South.

When Dr. Rix Yard became the athletic director in 1963, he felt Tulane needed a more virile symbol for its teams. Working with Eldon Endacott, the manager of the Tulane bookstore, he arranged for a new mascot to be created. Several sketches were submitted by Art Evans, art director for Angelus-Pacific, Co., in Fullerton, Calif.

The angry-looking wave was adopted in 1964, and the block "T" with waves became the Tulane athletics logo in 1986.

Tulane unveiled a new family of marks in August 1998. The new logos featured the return of the pelican to the Green Wave look, along with the use of a "T" with a modern "wave" as a primary logo mark. A new pelican mascot was introduced and given the name Riptide by a vote of Tulane students.

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 #93741  by Louis Tully
 Tue Nov 12, 2024 9:14 pm
He has turnovers because he is actively engaged in the game.
 #93776  by FU Hoopla
 Wed Nov 13, 2024 10:47 am
apaladin wrote:
Wed Nov 13, 2024 10:33 am
FYI- Belmont won at Lipscomb last night 80-79. Lipscomb beat Wofford at home last week 78-69.

Joe Anderson and Carter Whitt were guarding each other a bit :lol:


A week and half into the season FU has looked the best in the SoCon, fingers crossed we look good this Friday night too ;)
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 #93785  by FU Hoopla
 Wed Nov 13, 2024 1:17 pm

Should be relatively easy wins on tap for the SoCon tonight and tomorrow...
 #93794  by Louis Tully
 Wed Nov 13, 2024 3:37 pm
We can put a pretty big line up on the floor. Johnston, Hien, Bowser, Vander Wahl, House, you name it. Need a ball handler with the big guys. We could be a match up nightmare on the floor. Then again we can run a bunch of 6'5 and 6'6' guys out there and play smaller. I think this is going to be a fun team to watch. I hope they learn and grow together before Nov 30. That will be a good barometer out there with the Jayhawks.
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