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About Memphis Tigers Football
Stadium Name: Liberty Bowl
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Key Rival: UAB, Tulane, Louisville, Cincinnati, Houston
Memphis Tigers Basketball Schedule
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Why the "Tigers"?
When the University of Memphis first fielded a football
team in the fall of 1912, no one had selected a nickname for the squad.
Early references to the football team, tabbed them only
as the Blue and Gray Warriors of West Tennessee Normal School.
After the final game of the 1914 season, there was a
student parade. During this event, several Normal students shouted, "We
fight like Tigers". The nickname was born.
More and more the nickname "Tigers" was used,
particularly in campus publications. But it did not catch on with the
newspapers downtown. They continued to use "Normals" or the
"Blue and Gray" when referring to the University.
Under coach Lester Barnard in 1922, Normal's football
team gave a ring of truth to that old student yell about Tigers. The team
adopted a motto - "Every Man A Tiger" and went on to score 174
points while allowing their opponents just 29 points.
In the late 1920s, student publications and downtown
newspapers began referring to the football team as the "Teachers"
or "Tutors". The Tiger nickname would return. But not until
1939 was it finally adopted as the official nickname for the University
of Memphis.
Bengal for a Mascot
For approximately 23 years, the sideline mascot for the
University of Memphis athletics has been the Bengal Tiger. TOM II, the
name of the current mascot, puts in personal appearances at all Tiger
football games, as well as numerous basketball games. TOM II has also
been seen at Tiger baseball, soccer and women's basketball games.
The first tiger, purchased by the Highland Hundred (football
booster group) in 1972, lived for 20 years and was housed at the Memphis
Zoo. TOM died in February of 1992.
The story of how the first Tiger cub arrived in Memphis
is quite interesting. On November 9, 1972, the baby tiger was placed in
a dog kennel in Michigan City, IN, and flown to Chicago's O'Hare International
Airport. There it was placed aboard a Delta flight and arrived in Memphis
at 3:00 AM. C. Cleveland Drennon, an attorney and president of the Highland
Hundred, approved a check for $1,500 to buy the animal, and TOM was taken
to athletic director Billy Murphy's office for a press conference.
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