* Boomer the Bear, the mascot for the Spokane Chiefs WHL hockey team

Caltech's mascot is the Beaver, and its teams ( with the exception of the fencing team ) play in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which Caltech co-founded in 1915.

Another very popular situation where costumes are employed are for sporting events, where people dressed as their team's representative mascot help the club or team rally round their team's cause.

This unofficial mascot and team name was used until the early 1970s, when its use came under criticism.

The Colts official team mascot is Blue.

The monster still receives considerable attention, as indicated by the name ( Vermont Lake Monsters ) and mascot ( Champ ) of the state's minor league baseball team and a Vermont Historical Society publication, which also offers several mundane explanations for the so-called monster: " floating logs, schools of large sturgeons diving in a row, or flocks of black birds flying

The current team mascot is Ragnar ( played by Joseph Juranitch ).

From 1970 to 1992, Hub Meeds dressed as a Viking and served as the team mascot.

The team also had an NFL Huddles mascot in the mid 1980s, ( somewhat similar to Viktor the Viking ).

For instance, in 1973 the team introduced its popular mascot, Bernie Brewer.

This was embraced by the team, who then made a white elephant the team's mascot, and often incorporated it into the logo or sleeve patches.

After New York Giants ' manager John McGraw told reporters that Philadelphia manufacturer Benjamin Shibe, who owned the controlling interest in the new team, had a " white elephant on his hands ," Mack defiantly adopted the white elephant as the team mascot, and presented McGraw with a stuffed toy elephant at the start of the 1905 World Series.

The elephant was retired as team mascot in 1963 by then-owner Charles O. Finley in favor of a Missouri mule ( it was also rumored to have been done by Finley in order to attract fans from the then heavily Democratic constituents of Missouri by replacing the traditional Republican mascot to one associated with Democrats ).

The " Swinging Friar " has popped up on the uniform on and off ever since ( he is currently on the left sleeve of the navy alternate jersey ) although the head of the friar has been tweaked from the original in recent years, and it is currently the mascot of the team.

The " Swinging Friar " is currently the mascot of the team.

Although he does make appearances occasionally at San Diego sporting events, he has never been the official mascot of any San Diego sports team.

It was adopted as a nickname or mascot by a number of South African sports teams, most famously by the national rugby union team.

Also, many Dolphin players wore a slightly different helmet decal than the rest ... starting with the final regular season game of the 1973 season ( and continuing throughout the playoffs ) many players, mostly linemen, wore the decal that the team would adopt in 1974 ( with the mascot dolphin leaping through the sun ), while others wore helmets with the 1969-1973 decal ( with the mascot dolphin halfway through the sun ).

The mascot also has multiple uniforms to match each of the variants the team has.

* Ragnar is the name of The NFL Football team The Minnesota Vikings ' mascot.

* 1992-Cabbage Patch Kids were named the official mascot of the 1992 US Olympic team and members of the team were given their own dolls to take to the games.

It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.

On a team a man feels he is a part of it and akin to the men next to him.

Russia knows this, and that is why there were over 800,000 competing for places as candidates for the Olympic gymnastic team.

At the present time the research team which pioneered this new technique is primarily interested in advancing and perfecting it.

However, this difficulty is not too serious if it is realized that a surveying team can establish a true north base line with a few days' work.

The deeds of this team, through two seasons and in the two World's Series that followed, have been written and talked about until hardly a word is left to be said.

Moritz is listed on the Longhorn roster as a right halfback, the position at which he lettered on the 1956 team.

`` Pittsburgh definitely is the team to beat '', Mauch said here the other day.

Their names are Mantle and Maris, their team is the Yankees, and their threat is real.

So it is too with many other spirits which we all know: the spirit of Nazism or Communism, school spirit, the spirit of a street corner gang or a football team, the spirit of Rotary or the Ku Klux Klan.

`` A team is a team '', insisted Cady.

Paneloux joins the team of volunteer workers and preaches another sermon saying that the death of the innocent child is a test of faith.

The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.

In the United Kingdom and other countries, a quantity surveyor is often part of the team to provide cost consulting.

Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence and 5 years after being filmed by a dive team funded by novelist Clive Cussler.

; Assaulting a member of an international joint investigation team: This offence is created by section 57 ( 2 ) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

However, the team could not sustain its status and is now back in the second division.

During the period of holding a particular office everyone on the team is observing everybody else.

The difference occurs for all nouns of multitude, both general terms such as team and company and proper nouns ( for example where a place name is used to refer to a sports team ).

It is also representative of the evolution and direction of our team .” During the 2003 preseason Michael Vick broke his leg and missed the first twelve games of the season.

* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.