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To set the record straight, Auburn has only one nickname -- the Auburn Tigers.

"War Eagle" is a battle cry, used by Auburn fans in the same manner Alabama fans yell "Roll Tide!" and Arkansas fans yell "Woo Pig Sooie!"

The term "Plainsmen" comes from a line in that same Goldsmith poem, "Sweet Auburn, loveliest (sic) village of the plain..." Since Auburn athletes were, in the early days, men from the Plains, it was only natural for newspaper headline writers to shorten that to "Plainsmen."
and is the name of the Student Newspaper

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Posted by Mahootney

Lovin' My German Footprint

Member since Sep 2008

11879 posts

Posted on 8/19/11 at 2:35 pm to AUnite

Arkansas - LR Stadium & Pig Chant
LSU - Tigerbait
Miss St - Cow Bells
Ole Miss - Hotty Toddy
Bama - Rammer
Auburn - Cheating
Tenn - Rocky Top
UK - No Peeves.
Vandy - No Peeves.
UGA - No Peeves.
USCe - No Peeves.
Florida - Chomp.

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Posted by LSU GrandDad

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Member since Jun 2009

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Posted on 8/19/11 at 3:15 pm to AUnite

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AUnite

you are rewrighting history. the "proof" you offered up that auburn has always been the tigers is BS. i've been around awhile and know a number of auburn fans and before about 10-15 years ago not one of them ever called their team the tigers. when i was in college in the late '60's EVERYONE in the media called y'all the plainsmen. you can flash all the poems you want, even those written in the 1700's but to anyone outside of your village knew y'all as the plainsmen, then the war eagles, and then RECENTLY as the tigers. ask your dad or your grandad.

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