Benny Beaver (Mascot)
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Name (Latin)
Benny Beaver (Mascot)
Other forms of name
Beaver, Benny (Mascot)
Retro Benny (Mascot)
See Also From tracing corporate name
Mascots
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q4889939
Library of congress:
sh2018002704
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Aryal, A. Hello, Benny Beaver!, ©2008(summary: Benny Beaver, mascot of Oregon State University, spends a fun-filled day on campus and cheers the Beavers football team to victory.)
- Myers, M. OSU reflects on 67 years of Benny Beaver, via The daily barometer website, Nov. 19, 2017, viewed on Oct. 22, 2018(Oregon State University's mascot, Benny Beaver; Benny; first mascot of Oregon Agricultural College (former name) wasn't even a beaver, but a coyote named Jimmie. The first instance of an OAC Beaver mascot was in the 1920s, when OAC students found Bevo the beaver caught in an eddy in Marys River. Bevo was then adopted as the University's mascot. The first use of the name "Benny Beaver" was applied to the plaster copy of the original cast metal statue; Benny Beaver resurfaced in the 1940s as a paper mache statue of OSC's beaver icon; the Benny Beaver outfit created in 1953; Benny Beaver represents OSU's mission and all assets of the University)
- Beaver Nation, welcome Retro Benny home, via Oregon State Athletics website, posted Aug. 10, 2018, viewed Oct. 22, 2018(Benny Beaver (Retro Benny) was an official active mark of OSU's intercollegiate sport teams from 1951-98; Retro Benny makes an official return Homecoming weekend Oct. 20 when the OSU football team will wear a specially designed Nike uniform; Retro Benny will appear on the team's helmets for only the second time in history)
- Wikipedia, Oct. 22, 2018:Benny Beaver (Benny Beaver; official mascot of Oregon State University; exact date of when the name was first used as the university's mascot is not known, but photographs in the school's yearbook document its use as early as the 1940s; prior to the beaver, Oregon State's mascot was an individual known as John Richard Newton Bell (1893-1928); earlier mascots include "Jimmie" the Coyote (1892-1893) and "Bulldog" (1906-1910, unofficial and for specific teams only, such as the Wrestling squad). The beaver mascot's name, "Benny," was officially adopted in 1945; between the early 1980s and mid-1990s, Benny was often joined at sporting events by a co-mascot, known as "Bernice Beaver")
- Official Twitter of Benny Beaver, viewed Oct. 22, 2018(Benny Beaver; official Oregon State University Mascot; Corvallis, OR)