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Name:	HappyCamper -	Reply
Subject:	War Eagle?????
Date:	9/19/2006 10:21:39 AM

I am almost too embarassed to ask this question but what is the meaning of WAR EAGLE regarding the Auburn football team? My experience is that it is used as a greeting, a cheer, a victory cry, and it is almost always SHOUTED.

Name:	ChrisCraft -	Reply
Subject:	War Eagle?????
Date:	9/19/2006 1:40:09 PM

It's just a way for those less fortunate to say GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!! at the top of their lungs. It's like a deaf person using sign language....:)

Name:	au67 -	Reply
Subject:	War Eagle?????
Date:	9/19/2006 3:44:40 PM

From the summer issue of Auburn Magazine:

The words have been uttered at football games, in passing on city streets, during church services and, on at least one occasion, from a patient on the operating table. Although the tradition may have been born as a way to pep up crowds of spectators, "War Eagle" has evolved into an all-purpose greeting among AU fans, like "aloha" in Hawaii. The phrase can mean "hello," "goodbye," or "@&#% the Tide," creating an instant bond between pairs of total strangers.

According to folklore, the battle cry was first uttered about the time the institution was founded. A wounded Confederate survivor of a Civil War skirmish stumbled across the battlefield and discovered an injured eagle. The soldier, upon later joining the former East Alabama Male College as a faculty member, brought the bird to campus, and it became a de facto mascot. When, on the day of AU's first football game in 1892, the avian emissary soared over the field, inspired fans began shouting encouragement to the "war eagle." In at least one version of the story, the raptor fell dead from its last stressful flight ---- but the "war eagle" spirit lived on.

URL: www.aualum.org

Name:	ot -	Reply
Subject:	War Eagle?????
Date:	9/19/2006 4:58:39 PM

WAR EAGLE!

Name:	JIM -	Reply
Subject:	War Eagle?????
Date:	9/19/2006 6:10:52 PM

They are also called the Plainsman and Tigers, and us Dog fans call the hemmroids.

Name:	Lakeman -	Reply
Subject:	War Eagle?????
Date:	9/19/2006 7:24:07 PM

Now Jim, even though I'm a AU fan I have close ties with the UGA. And I have never called any of you A' Holes a hemorriod.

Name:	BamaBob3 -	Reply
Subject:	War Eagle?????
Date:	9/19/2006 9:09:35 PM

Now that's funny!!!

Name:	jawjagal -	Reply
Subject:	A dog by any other name would
Date:	9/19/2006 9:13:04 PM

sound as sweet as DAWGS...

hairy dogs,
junkyard dogs,
who let the dogs out?
hunker down dawgs,
UGA I, II, III, IV, V, VI, ETC.

So, Jim, we both have more than one name for our special teams.

From a UGA graduate student to Auburn wife: WAR EAGLE!!!!!!!!

Jim...what year did you graduate?

Name:	roswellric -	Reply
Subject:	Not exactly...
Date:	9/19/2006 10:22:19 PM

Georgia"s mascot is a Bulldog, Auburn's mascot is not an eagle... or is it a tiger..or is it a plainsman....hmmmmmm... I think somebody is confused.

Name:	longtimer -	Reply
Subject:	Not exactly...
Date:	9/20/2006 12:33:43 AM

Yes, somebody is confused... but it's not anyone from Auburn! Try to keep up:

Auburn's mascot is the tiger. It is the ONLY mascot.

"War Eagle" is a battle cry, though outside of the arena it is a catch-all phrase, much like "Aloha."

The Plainsman is the student newspaper.

The confusion comes from the fact that ignorant reporters, in an effort to add "color" to their stories, often call Auburn teams "the War Eagles" or "the Plainsmen." (Old-timers might remember one of the worst offenders, a Birmingham sports reporter named Alf Van Hoose.) Trusting a newspaper reporter is never a good idea.

Got it yet? There is just one mascot for Auburn-- they are the Tigers. I can't see how that could be confusing for anyone... but a lot of non-Auburn people do seem to have trouble grasping this simple fact. Could it be a simple lack of intelligence on their part? :-)

Name:	HappyCamper -	Reply
Subject:	Not exactly...
Date:	9/20/2006 9:33:43 AM

Thanks for the information and the laughs! I love this forum.

Name:	JIM -	Reply
Subject:	A dog by any other name would
Date:	9/20/2006 3:18:43 PM

Did not go to Ga, Southern Tech. Just worked in the type of business that Ga. Tech and Auburn Alumni work in. Heard their crap for years, so I choose Ga. as my team back in the early 60`s. AND AM PROUD OF IT. GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Name:	Tallyman -	Reply
Subject:	Not exactly...
Date:	9/21/2006 11:26:39 PM

Actually, Plainsman comes from the Oliver Goldsmith poem, "The Deserted Village," written in 1870. The town of Auburn was named after the Irish village of the same name which became depopulated when rich men threw out the poor farmers.

It starts as follows:

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed:
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o'er thy green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene;
How often have I paused on every charm,
The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, 10
The never-failing brook, the busy mill,
The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill,
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,
For talking age and whispering lovers made.

Name:	jawjagal -	Reply
Subject:	Southern Tech & Jim
Date:	9/22/2006 9:26:51 AM

What year did Southern Poly break away from Georgia Tech...do you know?

Name:	JIM -	Reply
Subject:	Southern Tech & Jim
Date:	9/22/2006 9:48:57 AM

Late 70`s I believe.

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