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Penn State's
athletic symbol, chosen by the student body in 1906, is the mountain
lion, which once roamed central Pennsylvania. H.D. "Joe" Mason, a
member of the Class of 1907, conducted a one-man campaign to choose
a school mascot after seeing the Princeton tiger on a trip with the
Penn State baseball team to that New Jersey campus. A student publication
sponsored the campaign to select a mascot and Penn State is believed
to be the first college to adopt the lion as a mascot. With Penn State's
locale at the foot of Mt. Nittany, in the Nittany Valley, it makes
perfect sense that Penn State's mascot emerged as the Nittany LionŽ. |
