Unique Names

[Rangerbook06]

I would like to know how some of these teams got their name. I think that it would be interesting to know.

Well the back story of Unaka is that way back in the in the 1920's, when the very first Unaka High School was being built, the forest rangers donated the land and material for the school, and they also helped construct it. Thus, you have Unaka Rangers in honor of the forest rangers

[bigblue74]

Livingston Academy is the wildcats but have a "war cry" of hog-eye!

H-O-G, E-Y-E, Hogeye, Hogeye, T-N-T!

[GreenMan]

Well the back story of Unaka is that way back in the in the 1920's, when the very first Unaka High School was being built, the forest rangers donated the land and material for the school, and they also helped construct it.

 

Does it look like a park with cabins? Just kidding, thats pretty cool when an organization steps up and helps like that. I think it was the late 70's early 80's when The Army Corp of Engineers and Pat Brewer dug the hole and built our stadium in Collinwood.

[eddie haskell]

Livingston Academy is the wildcats but have a "war cry" of hog-eye!

H-O-G, E-Y-E, Hogeye, Hogeye, T-N-T!

 

 

wildcats seems like a pretty common nickname to me.

[eddie haskell]

I knew a high school in Minnesota named the Harrison Hairy Hunks. Now that was a unique nickname. Especially since it was an all girls school. The story goes that in 1922 when the school was young they used to be named the Harrison Heifers. But political correctness took over and the girls were having a vote to decide upon a new name. It was a lock that the name would be the Belles. But during voting it was found out that two of the star athletes were actually men. This angered their cross town rival so much that they made a $1000000 donation to Harrison with the stipulation that they be named the hairy hunks for the rest of time to make sure everyone knew what they had done. Since the school was in financial difficulty(as you could imagine with a name like the heifers) they had to accept the terms of the deal and therefore the Harrison Hairy Hunks were born.

[Rangerbook06]

I knew a high school in Minnesota named the Harrison Hairy Hunks. Now that was a unique nickname. Especially since it was an all girls school. The story goes that in 1922 when the school was young they used to be named the Harrison Heifers. But political correctness took over and the girls were having a vote to decide upon a new name. It was a lock that the name would be the Belles. But during voting it was found out that two of the star athletes were actually men. This angered their cross town rival so much that they made a $1000000 donation to Harrison with the stipulation that they be named the hairy hunks for the rest of time to make sure everyone knew what they had done. Since the school was in financial difficulty(as you could imagine with a name like the heifers) they had to accept the terms of the deal and therefore the Harrison Hairy Hunks were born.

That sounds like something you'd hear from Paul Harvey as he was telling me the rest of the story!

[GreenMan]

Isn't Union City's mascot a Tornado? Thats pretty darn unique.

[Raynok]

I knew a high school in Minnesota named the Harrison Hairy Hunks. Now that was a unique nickname. Especially since it was an all girls school. The story goes that in 1922 when the school was young they used to be named the Harrison Heifers. But political correctness took over and the girls were having a vote to decide upon a new name. It was a lock that the name would be the Belles. But during voting it was found out that two of the star athletes were actually men. This angered their cross town rival so much that they made a $1000000 donation to Harrison with the stipulation that they be named the hairy hunks for the rest of time to make sure everyone knew what they had done. Since the school was in financial difficulty(as you could imagine with a name like the heifers) they had to accept the terms of the deal and therefore the Harrison Hairy Hunks were born.

Now that is hilarious that is the kind of stuff I wanted to hear about.

[Shep]

Isn't Union City's mascot a Tornado? Thats pretty darn unique.

 

Beat ya to it...post #31

[gjredskin]

I knew a high school in Minnesota named the Harrison Hairy Hunks. Now that was a unique nickname. Especially since it was an all girls school. The story goes that in 1922 when the school was young they used to be named the Harrison Heifers. But political correctness took over and the girls were having a vote to decide upon a new name. It was a lock that the name would be the Belles. But during voting it was found out that two of the star athletes were actually men. This angered their cross town rival so much that they made a $1000000 donation to Harrison with the stipulation that they be named the hairy hunks for the rest of time to make sure everyone knew what they had done. Since the school was in financial difficulty(as you could imagine with a name like the heifers) they had to accept the terms of the deal and therefore the Harrison Hairy Hunks were born.

thats classic!

[Rangerbook2]

A local and one of my favorite teams.

 

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