University Colors Orange and blue were adopted as the University of Virginia's
official athletic colors at a mass student meeting in 1888. UVa
athletic teams had previously worn silver gray and cardinal red, but
those colors did not stand out on muddy football fields, prompting a
student movement to change them.
One of the students attending the mass meeting was Allen Potts,
a star athlete who played on Virginia's first football team in 1888.
Potts showed up at the meeting wearing a navy blue-and-orange scarf
that he had acquired during a summer boating expedition at Oxford
University. Orange and blue were chosen as the official athletic colors
after one of Potts' fellow students pulled the scarf off Potts' neck
and, waving it to the crowd, yelled, "How will this do?"
University Nicknames Virginia's athletic teams have been accompanied by a somewhat
confusing array of nicknames. The most prominent and widely accepted of
these monikers are "Cavaliers," "Wahoos" and "Hoos," although "V-men,"
"Virginians" and "Old Dominion" also have been used to refer to UVa
athletic teams through the years.
Although the terms "Cavaliers," "Wahoos" and "Hoos" are used
almost interchangeably to refer to University teams and players,
"Cavaliers" is more often used by the media, while "Wahoos" and "Hoos"
are frequently used by Virginia students and fans.
Legend has it that Washington & Lee baseball fans dubbed
the Virginia players "Wahoos" during the fiercely contested rivalry
that existed between the two in-state schools in the 1890s. By 1940,
"Wahoos" was in general use around Grounds to denote University
students or events relating to them. The abbreviated "Hoos" sprang up
later in student newspapers and has gained growing popularity in recent
years.
In 1923, the college newspaper, College Topics, held a contest
to choose an official alma mater and fight song. John Albert Morrow,
Class of '23, won the alma mater contest with "Virginia, Hail All
Hail," while "The Cavalier Song," written by Lawrence Haywood Lee, Jr.,
Class of '24, with music by Fulton Lewis, Jr., Class of '25, was chosen
the best fight song. Although both songs failed to become part of
University tradition, "The Cavalier Song" inspired the nickname
"Cavaliers."
The Cavalier Mascot The first documented Cavalier on horseback was Francis Bell, a
Virginia student from Dublin, Va., in 1947. Bell and another member of
the Student Independent Party, a non-fraternity political group at the
University, rode onto the field dressed as Cavaliers for Virginia's
home football game with Harvard on the afternoon of October 11. The
identity of the other horseman is unknown. The Cavalier on horseback
returned as the University's mascot in 1963. The UVa Polo Club provided
both the horse and rider. However, the mounted Cavalier and his horse
parted company in 1974 with the inception of AstroTurf at Scott
Stadium. From 1974 to 1982, the Cavalier performed on foot. The 'Hoo,
an orange-costumed mascot, made a brief appearance in 1983, but did not
capture the support of the student body. The costumed Cavalier with a
large character head debuted the following football season in 1984 and
has remained the official mascot of the University. The Cavalier
performs with the UVa cheerleaders at all football and men's and
women's basketball games as well as various other University-related
and athletic events. The Cavalier is selected from the student body
through open tryouts. The mounted Cavalier made its return in the
Florida Citrus Bowl at the end of the 1989 football season. Due to its
instant popularity, the Cavalier on horseback returned the following
season on a regular basis and continues to lead the Virginia football
team onto the field at the beginning of all home games.
Beta and Seal
Virginia's first mascot was a black-and-white mongrel dog named
Beta, who was cherished by the University community in the 1920s and
'30s. The canine was named after the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, which
bought his license at least once. Considered no less than a member of
the student body, Beta pursued a wide range of interests--from football
to scholarly discourse. He was welcomed at most University functions,
including dances, fraternity parties and lectures. He attended a course
at Cabell Hall about Plato so frequently that his name was called in
the roll, at which time he would bark out his presence. His most famous
exploit came after being left behind in Athens, Ga., following a UVa
football game with Georgia. It was not until two weeks later that a
scratch was heard at the back door of the Beta House, and a cold,
ragged and hungry Beta stood there. It is not known how he found his
way home. As befitted a dog of his stature, Beta enjoyed a great deal
of notoriety. Hailed by the University as the nation's "No. 1 college
dog," he was mentioned on a nationwide broadcast of the Pontiac radio
show and appeared in Look magazine.
On April 6, 1939, Beta was hit by an automobile and had to be
put to sleep. An estimated one thousand students marched in the funeral
procession from the Beta House (now Delta Upsilon) to the University
Cemetery.
Seal, a cross-eyed black mongrel mutt, continued the
University's tradition of dog mascots in the mid-1940s. His sleek coat
of fur earned him the name Seal, and he later became known as the
"Great Seal of Virginia."
The beloved mascot was allowed in UVa lecture halls and nearly
everywhere else around town. Even local restaurants with signs reading,
"No Dogs Allowed," wrote below in parentheses, "except Seal." He was
fed by different fraternities as well as the University Cafeteria and
could often be found at the home of the late Dr. Charles Frankel, a
long-time football team doctor at UVa.
Seal's claim to fame came in 1949 during halftime of the
Pennsylvania football game at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. Wearing a
blue blanket embossed with a large orange "V," Seal walked from the
50-yard line to the Pennsylvania sideline where the Penn cheerleaders
had placed their megaphones. The rest of the event was recounted as
follows in the Cavalier Daily: "Slowly he walked from midfield to the
Quaker side. Indifferently he inspected their cheerleading
appurtenances. Eighty thousand people watched with bated breath.
Coolly, insolently, Seal lifted a leg--the rest is history." Virginia
went on to win its seventh straight game of the season 26-14 and Seal
later came to be known as Caninus Megaphonus Pennsylvanus.
Seal was about 10 years old and suffering from an internal
rupture when a local veterinarian, Dr. W.B. White, put the "Great Seal
of Virginia" to sleep on December 11, 1953. Approximately 1,500 people
joined the funeral procession from the University Hospital to the
University Cemetery, where Seal was laid to rest beside Beta. No other
canine has since been accepted as the official mascot.
University Songs "The Good Old Song" was written in 1893. Sung to the familiar tune
of "Auld Lang Syne," it has since served as UVa's unofficial alma
mater. Although the words to the song are attributed to the late Edward
H. Craighill, Jr., of Lynchburg, Va., Craighill wrote in the October
1922 issue of the University of Virginia Magazine that "no one man
should be credited with the authorship" of the first stanza. He said it
was a byproduct of a welcoming home of a victorious football team and
was the joint production of several students. The cheer "Wah-hoo-wah"
was in vogue with the student body and was incorporated into the song.
The song is most frequently heard during home football games as
Cavalier fans stand and sway, arm-in-arm, singing "The Good Old Song"
after each Virginia score and at the end of the game. The song is also
sung at numerous other UVa athletic events and University-related
functions.
To learn more about the student movement to restore the Good Old Song to its traditional singing, please go to the Good Old Song Web page.
That good old song of
Wah-hoo-wah
We'll sing it o'er and o'er
It cheers our hearts and
warms our blood
To hear them shout and roar.
We come from Old Virginia,
Where all is bright and gay.
Let's all join hands and give a yell
For the dear old UVa
Wah-hoo-wah,
Wah-hoo-wah.
Uni-v, Virginia,
Hoo-rah-ray,
Hoo-rah-ray,
Ray! Ray! U-V-a
"Wah-Hoo-Wah"
The origin of "Wah-hoo-wah" is uncertain. The cheer was used to
root on Virginia teams as early as 1890 and may have been borrowed from
Dartmouth College, whose athletic teams were once known as the Indians.
Legend attributes the yell to Natalie Floyd Otey, who sang the ballad
"Where'er You Are, There Shall My Love Be" at Charlottesville's Levy
Opera House in 1893. The predominantly student audience noticed that
Otey warbled the first three words of the song between each of the
stanzas and decided to join in the refrain. By evening's end, goes the
legend, the crowd had corrupted "Where'er You Are" into "Wah-Hoo-Wah."
The Levy Opera House stood at the corner of High Street and Park Street
and has since been renovated into an office building.
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