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- From: rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
- Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
- Subject: Billikens [Was: WHAT is a Billican (sp?)?]
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 03:13:19 GMT
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- In article <81706@hydra.gatech.EDU> kk18@prism.gatech.EDU (Kelly Kenion) writes:
- >Okay, I give. I know there's a school somewhere (in the Northeast?) with a
- >mascot called the Billicans.
-
- The Billiken is the mascot of St. Louis University, and of St. Louis U. High.
- (Both are Jesuit schools, and are located in west central St. Louis.)
- It looks sort of like a pickled elf, if you can imagine that; and it's
- always painted up in blue.
-
- Except, of course, at certain special times...such as the occasion just
- about twenty years ago when SLUH's copy was kidnapped and redecorated
- in maroon and white, the colors of the DeSmet High Spartans (another Jesuit
- high school in the St. Louis area). But then again, I wouldn't know
- anything about that.
-
- ---Rsk
- DeSmet '74
-