south carolina gamecocks
Cock-Up Over Gamecock Means South Carolina Must Rename Its Rooster
I always thought that the University of South Carolina chose its nickname so it could sell white hats with “COCKS” written on them in the 1990s. Well, I was wrong. According to 1916’s A History of the University of South Carolina, apparently it dates all the way back to the early 1900s, when the varsity football […]
