Yale's mascot tradition started unofficially in 1890 ... and the fact that he came down with worms before the Harvard-Yale game of the next year did his reputation little good.

The earliest recording of a mascot is believed to be from a football game between Harvard and Yale in 1894 when a live bear cub was on the sideline. For Notre Dame, it started using an Irish ...

That the Army athletic officials have none of the stubbornness of their equine mascot, but base their refusal ... assistant director of Athletics, on the Harvard system of allotting tickets ...