West Texas A&M (formerly West Texas State U) in Canyon has a buffalo calf that they run on the sidelines, too (this tradition started in the late 1970s). Back in the 1920s (IIRC) they had a full grown buffalo that they kept in a corral near campus, donated to them by rancher Charles Goodnight. Periodically Old Charlie (as the Buffalo was named) would break out of the corral and some frat boys would have to hunt him down and bring him back alive. The last time that happened, Old Charlie didn’t survive the encounter. He was stuffed and mounted and put on display at The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum at WTSU for many decades. WTSU didn’t have a live mascot again until the late 1970s.
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