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CTyankee

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1. In the Ivy League, Dartmouth no longer has Indians as their team name. I remember Ivy League

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Tue Feb 23, 2021, 02:11 PM

Feb 2021

football games when they had a guy dressed as an Iroquois Indian as their mascot, like Yale's Bulldogs or Princeton's Tigers. The Dartmouth "mascot" would dance around doing his version of a war whoop.

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