Who were the TIGERS first? LSU or Auburn?

Back when Auburn was known as The Agriculture & Mechanical College of Alabama( which was later renamed Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1899, and later Auburn University in 1960), we played our very first game against Georgia in 1892 and won 10-0. In that game we used the Tiger as our mascot.

LSU first used the term "Fighting Tigers" in a football game in 1893, but had used the term as early as 1870 as it derived from an old military unit in Louisiana from the Civil War.

So, if we are talking about the use of a Tiger as a football mascot, the nod goes to Auburn. If we are talking about the Tiger being symbolic of the school(if that makes sense), LSU gets the nod.

He's right. In 1795, a group of planters and slaves got together and played a game of rag toss on what is now LSU's campus. The Tiger mascot was used then.

Indeed. Ross, you lose.

According to Peter Finney, Author of The Fighting Tigers, it was first used publicly at LSU in 1896:

"The 1896 season was the first team to bear the nickname 'Tigers.' As coach Coates related it, the name 'Tigers' was logical if only because it was the custom to name university teams after animals--there were Tigers at Princeton, Bulldogs at Yale, Lions at Columbia. But there was more to it than that. During the Civil War, the Louisiana Tigers, composed of New Orleans Zouaves and Donaldsonville Cannoneers, had distinguished themselves in the Valley of the Shenandoah. So 'Tigers' was a natural choice"

--Taken from The Fighting Tigers II, by Peter Finney, page 13, published 1980.

When I was in school in the early 1970s, when we played Auburn, they referred to themselves as the Plainsmen and/or the War Eagles. Yeah, I know Auburn fans claim that "War Eagle" is a battle cry and not a nickname, but I can tell you from firsthand experience in BR and at Auburn during that period, they were never referred to as the "Tigers". That monicker didn't emerge in popular sports until the era of Bo Jackson and others in the 1980s.

I think that's just because every retard that didn't go to college in Bama follows Bama football.

FYI

Check'd out these articles on the Ga.-AU game in 1892 and don't see any mention of mascots for either team.

One article mentions a previous game between Ga. and Mercer. Does that mean Ga.-AU is the second oldest???


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Although Auburn will vehemently deny that War Eagle is a mascot and instead claim that it is a battle cry, the only live mascot on their campus is indeed an Eagle. To further confuse the matter, the Eagles name is Tiger.

I could explain further, but why not read if from the horse's mouth
Honestly, we're not confused.

Basically, what I'm saying is this. If you have to devote an entire page on your athletic website explaining why your mascot isn't confusing, then it's confusing.

Look Auburn used to be the War Eagles then the Biplanesmen then the Tigers.

LSU has always been the Tigers.

I don't give a damn what some Aubie said by in 1582 in the Ag school. Auburn changes there mascot about as often as any school out there.

i thought auburn was the bama j.c.