Which college teams (basketball or football) have team names that do not end with an "s"?
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Which college teams (basketball or football) have team names that do not end with an "s"? I have a list of 18 college teams (basketball or football) with team names that do not end with an "s". Can anyone top that? -- Dick Adams <rdadams@ubmail.ubalt.edu>
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Here's 32:
Big Blue: Millikin U
Big Green: Dartmouth
Big Red: Cornell U, Denison (Ohio)
Bison: North Dakota State U, Bucknell U, Howard U, David Lipscomb U,
Nichols, Harding U, Bethany College (West Virginia), Oklahoma
Baptist U
Blue Hose: Presbyterian College
Buffalo: Milligan College
Cardinal: Stanford U
Crimson: Harvard U
Crimson Tide: U of Alabama
Flying Fleet: Erskine College
Garnet: Swarthmore
Golden Hurricane: U of Tulsa
Gold Rush: Xavier U of Louisiana
Green Wave: Tulane U
Illini: U of Illinois
Irish: U of Notre Dame
Lynx: Rhodes College
Metro: Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Okra: Delta State U
Phoenix: U of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Prairie Fire: Knox College
Red Flash: St. Francis (Pennsylvania)
Red Storm: St. John's (New York)
Rock, The: Slippery Rock U (or are they the Rockets?)
Sioux: U of North Dakota, Indiana U of Pennsylvania
Siwash: Knox (Illinois)
Thunder: Tri-State (Indiana)
Thundering Herd: Marshall U
Tornado: King College
Tribe: College of William & Mary, Huron U
Wolf Pack: U of Nevada
Wolfpack: North Carolina State U, Thiel College
(Updated through v 2.2 of Adam Smargon's posting.)
-- David Savitt <dsavitt@unixg.ubc.ca>
If we include non division I teams, and NAIA ones, we might be here
for a while. names I see omitted from this list (and maybe this was
discussed before)..
Orangemen (Syracuse)
Redmen (St. Johns)
And is Navy the Midshipmen?
-- Douglas E.F. Helmreich <doughelm@umich.edu>