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The Stanford Tree is the Stanford Band 's mascot and the unofficial mascot of Stanford University. Stanford's team name is "Cardinal", referring to the vivid Stanford Cardinal Red color (not the common songbird as at several other schools), and the university does not have an official mascot. The Tree, in various versions, has been called one ...
Dec 4, 2023 · Dec. 4, 2023, 11:05 p.m. No mascot has as unique a personality as the Stanford Tree. For nearly five decades, each Tree has made their costume distinctively, and fashionably, their own. In 1975 ...
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Sep 13, 2023 · For 42 years, beginning in 1930, Stanford’s sports teams went by the Indians, according to the university’s official website. Its first mascot was Prince Lightfoot, a member of the Yurok tribe. Lightfoot remained the university’s mascot until 1972, when Native American students launched a petition to abolish the name and the mascot, which ...
Feb 1, 2013 · The Stanford Tree is a well-loved crowd pleaser in the eyes of Stanford students and the Palo Alto community, who often look forward to seeing it perform on the sidelines just as much as watching the game itself. This unofficial school mascot has been cited on Wikipedia as “one of America’s most bizarre and controversial...
Aug 5, 2016 · There are several pages on the history of El Palo Alto, including a Wikipedia page and one from at PaloAltoHistory.org, where you can read how tall the tree was, and how its health declined in the 18th and 19th century due to lack of water because of the demands of growing industry – and Stanford University! – nearby.
Apr 11, 2018 · The first Tree was covered in construction paper leaves – red in deference to the towering redwood on the university seal. “It was supposed to be a spoof on mascots, not the real thing,” two ...
Mar 13, 2009 · The joke was, ‘We’ll be the Stanford Trees.’. It’s kinda the lamest mascot they could think of. Very simple, not really anything fearful. They started taking it to more games, and it turns ...
