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LSU has a new tiger, Mike VII

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Tidewater said:
Long live Mike.
(As an aside, why "Mike?")
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the athletic trainer at LSU in the 1930s who had the idea of bringing a live tiger mascot to campus was Mike Chambers. Tigers are renamed Mike to honor him. This one was indeed a rescue and his name was Harvey. The prior Mike, also a rescue was Roscoe eard, swimming pool manager and intramural swimming coach William G. Hickey Higginbotham, and LSU law student Ed Laborde decided to bring a real tiger to LSU. They raised $750, collecting twenty-five cents from each student, and purchased a two-hundred-pound, one-year old tiger from the Little Rock Zoo.
Born on October 10, 1935, and like his father, originally named Sheik, his name was changed to Mike in honor of Chambers, the man most responsible for bringing him to LSU.
 
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