Gopher fan looking for some info

[JimmyJack]

Re: Gopher fan looking for some info

From www.gojacks.com:The most common belief is that the name "Jackrabbits" came from a story that appeared in a Minneapolis newspaper following a 1905 football game between the University of Minnesota and South Dakota State College, as the university was then known. A reporter for the newspaper, knowing of the preponderance of jackrabbits in the Brookings area, was believed to have written that the SDSC team was a quick as jackrabbits. Many people believe that the school adopted the Jackrabbits as its official nickname from the beginning.

Good stuff My Dad tells me that when Charlie Coughlin was playing for SDSU in 1904-1909, the team was referred to locally as the "Barnyard Cadets".