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Colors - Letters and other records
indicate that by the 1840s, South Carolinians were
praising Sumter as the "South Carolina school
colors Garnet and Black were adopted near the turn
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the 20th Century as the official colors of the University
of South Carolina athletic teams. The colors are
dominant ones on the gamecock, which is the University's
official mascot for its athletic teams.
Cocky
- The University of South Carolina's official mascot
is "Cocky." The garnet and blacked plumed
gamecock captured National Championship titles as
the number one mascot in 1986, 1994 and 2003. Introduced
in 1980 as his father's (Big Spur) replacement,
Cocky can be seen at most South Carolina athletic
events and is a fan favorite among young and old.
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Nickname "Fighting Gamecocks"
- the University of South Carolina is the only major
college athletic program in the country that uses
"Fighting Gamecocks" as its offical nickname
and mascot. The University's athletic teams have
been known as Gamecocks for almost 100 years. At
the turn of the century, after struggling for more
than a decade under numerous nicknames, the school's
football team was first referred to unofficially
as "Game Cocks."
In 1903, Columbia's morning newspaper, The State,
shortened the name to one word, and South Carolina
teams have been Gamecocks ever since. Those early
teams must have been a feisty and spirited group.
A gamecock, of course, is a fighting rooster known
for its spirit and courage. A cock fight, which
was a popular sport throughout the United States
in the 19th century, would last until the death
of one of the combatants. Cock fighting has been
outlawed by most states for humanitarian reasons,
but it is still held surreptitiously in many areas.
The state of South Carolina has long been closely
connected with the breeding and training of fighting
gamecocks. General Thomas Sumter, famed guerilla
fighter of the Revolutionary War, was known as "The
Fighting Gamecock".
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