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Title: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: ksuwildcat88 on August 04, 2009, 02:17:22 PM
Sorry if the link is not active   :banghead:
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/32239415/displaymode/1247/beginSlide/1/beginChapter/1/beginTab/1/
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: scottwildcat on August 04, 2009, 02:22:39 PM
 :woohoo:
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: Pett on August 04, 2009, 02:44:00 PM
Direct link:

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/32239415/displaymode/1247/beginSlide/1/beginChapter/1/beginTab/1/
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: mikeycat on August 04, 2009, 03:31:50 PM
so did Hawaii's tradition dating back to 2006.     

Seriously?   Who do they think they are, ku?
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: EmporiaWildcat on August 04, 2009, 03:49:22 PM
Texas, OU, A&M, ku, Colorado, Mizzou, Nebraka, K-State all on the list  Wow....
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: MadCat on August 04, 2009, 04:41:50 PM
Texas, OU, A&M, ku, Colorado, Mizzou, Nebraka, K-State all on the list  Wow....

Moral victory for the North.
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: QuinnMac on August 04, 2009, 05:04:02 PM
Texas, OU, A&M, ku, Colorado, Mizzou, Nebraka, K-State all on the list  Wow....

Moral victory for the North.
can always use those :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: JTKSU on August 04, 2009, 05:50:32 PM
so did Hawaii's tradition dating back to 2006.     

Seriously?   Who do they think they are, ku?

No doubt.  Pretty stupid to list something that has been a "tradition" for like 3 years.
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: Luke-KSU on August 04, 2009, 06:44:50 PM
How long has the Wabash Cannonball been with us?
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: kst8cat on August 04, 2009, 06:58:38 PM
How long has the Wabash Cannonball been with us?

Tradition since the fire in Nichols Hall burned all the band's other music in 1968 or 1969, I think.  Band director had a copy of Wabash in his briefcase, so they started playing that at the next game.
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: EmporiaWildcat on August 04, 2009, 09:37:42 PM
How long has the Wabash Cannonball been with us?

Tradition since the fire in Nichols Hall burned all the band's other music in 1968 or 1969, I think.  Band director had a copy of Wabash in his briefcase, so they started playing that at the next game.

qft
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: JTKSU on August 04, 2009, 11:32:53 PM
How long has the Wabash Cannonball been with us?

Tradition since the fire in Nichols Hall burned all the band's other music in 1968 or 1969, I think.  Band director had a copy of Wabash in his briefcase, so they started playing that at the next game.

Wow, is that how that all came about?  I've never heard that story before.   :ugh:
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: cyclist on August 05, 2009, 08:18:19 AM
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Everyone knows that familiar tune Wabash Cannonball. In fact, Wabash and K-State are almost synonymous. What many people do not know is how the song became an integral part of Wildcat athletics. In the fall of 1969 the department of music burnt down. Every piece of music in the building was destroyed. The only thing that was salvaged was what was in the band director’s brief case. That included a piece of music titled the Wabash Cannonball. With an upcoming football game and no music, that left only one thing to do. The band members played the song loud and often. A song that originally had no connection to KSU became a second fight song.
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: JTKSU on August 05, 2009, 11:00:03 AM
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Everyone knows that familiar tune Wabash Cannonball. In fact, Wabash and K-State are almost synonymous. What many people do not know is how the song became an integral part of Wildcat athletics. In the fall of 1969 the department of music burnt down. Every piece of music in the building was destroyed. The only thing that was salvaged was what was in the band director’s brief case. That included a piece of music titled the Wabash Cannonball. With an upcoming football game and no music, that left only one thing to do. The band members played the song loud and often. A song that originally had no connection to KSU became a second fight song.

Thanks you for your reiteration of this matter.
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: EmporiaWildcat on August 05, 2009, 04:15:26 PM
How long has the Wabash Cannonball been with us?

Tradition since the fire in Nichols Hall burned all the band's other music in 1968 or 1969, I think.  Band director had a copy of Wabash in his briefcase, so they started playing that at the next game.

Wow, is that how that all came about?  I've never heard that story before.   :ugh:

You better sarcastic or you're EMAW is severly lacking.
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: cyclist on August 05, 2009, 04:35:39 PM
How long has the Wabash Cannonball been with us?

Tradition since the fire in Nichols Hall burned all the band's other music in 1968 or 1969, I think.  Band director had a copy of Wabash in his briefcase, so they started playing that at the next game.

Wow, is that how that all came about?  I've never heard that story before.   :ugh:

You better sarcastic or you're EMAW is severly lacking.

Fixed it.  (Italics for sarcasm...)
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: cyclist on August 05, 2009, 07:21:37 PM
(http://www.k-state.com/%7Bdyn.img%7D/841d8eed5db24b9da0305900cab2422e/Willie%20through%20time.jpg)
Classless Willie through the years.

Willie the Wildcat
The Willie tradition began in 1947, and since then, his image and role have undergone several changes.

Adrea Simmons Andersen '55 played K-State's first mascot at the September 1947 football game against Oklahoma A&M. She dressed in a red-brown wildcat costume with black stripes and a tail.

Several decades before this, beginning as early as 1922, a real wildcat named Touchdown, supplied the mascot symbolism at games. And, from 1906 to 1909, Boscoe, a black Labrador, represented K-State at baseball and football games.

In the 1960s, Sigma Chi fraternity members played Willie. Later that decade, the mascot looked like Mickey Mouse, and K-State wanted a new image.

Jim Hagan '50, '66, '68, a sculptor and artist, created a newer, meaner-looking Willie. Hagan made two Willie heads out of coyote and wolf hair. The first head lasted from 1967 until 1980. The second lasted until 1993.

In 1993, the Kaw Valley Catbacker Club donated the fifth Willie head. The new head was rounder and made out of brown artificial fur.

Willie received a face-lift again in fall 1997.

This Willie head, still used today, has gray fur with two white stripes to resemble the PowerCat logo. The current head weighs five pounds and features an electronic cooling fan.

For more than 50 years, one tradition with Willie has remained the same: the identity of Willie is still kept a secret.

Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: MadCat on August 05, 2009, 10:52:11 PM
What year did Willie trade in his wussy fuzzy arms for his man arms?  Apparently, most fans that complain about Willie, it is because of this.  They're just jealous. :nahnah:
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: vuren on August 06, 2009, 03:26:53 AM
so did Hawaii's tradition dating back to 2006.     

Seriously?   Who do they think they are, ku?

nbc fracked up.  they aren't doing the HAKA, the haka would be of the Maori tradition of the Kiwi's which has been done since the 1900's(the did the first haka outside of new zealand in a test match in i believe 1917 when they toured england and beat every team they played(usually by shut out))  so saying the kid came up with it in his highschool is bullcrap.
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: omahawildcat on August 06, 2009, 10:05:53 AM
How many knew who Willie was when they were in school?

I knew the Willie during my freshman year. He lived on my dorm floor.
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: jrod06 on August 06, 2009, 10:53:25 AM
Had a willie as a roomate, and his bro runs the jumbotron at BSFS and OOD, and little bro plays on the team. Family is very :kstatriot: :ksu: :excited:
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: JTKSU on August 06, 2009, 11:58:00 AM
How long has the Wabash Cannonball been with us?

Tradition since the fire in Nichols Hall burned all the band's other music in 1968 or 1969, I think.  Band director had a copy of Wabash in his briefcase, so they started playing that at the next game.

Wow, is that how that all came about?  I've never heard that story before.   :ugh:

You better sarcastic or you're EMAW is severly lacking.

Oh, I was being sarcastic alright.  I've heard that damn story about as many times as I've heard the Wabash itself.
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: Ghost of Stan Parrish on August 06, 2009, 01:14:27 PM
Didn't know Willie, but I dated ku's Baby Jay.   :secret:

(Admitting this probably makes me less EMAWy.)
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: MadCat on August 06, 2009, 01:37:39 PM
Didn't know Willie, but I dated ku's Baby Jay.   :secret:

(Admitting this probably makes me less EMAWy.)

If you just dated...yes, probably.
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: JTKSU on August 06, 2009, 01:57:11 PM
Didn't know Willie, but I dated ku's Baby Jay.   :secret:

(Admitting this probably makes me less EMAWy.)

You're a chick?  Or are you just a little  :ku:?
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: Ghost of Stan Parrish on August 06, 2009, 02:08:19 PM
Didn't know Willie, but I dated ku's Baby Jay.   :secret:

(Admitting this probably makes me less EMAWy.)

You're a chick?  Or are you just a little  :ku:?

The answer is "no" to both questions.  Baby Jay is always a girl.
Title: Re: Willie makes the list of top football traditions
Post by: JTKSU on August 06, 2009, 03:43:37 PM
Didn't know Willie, but I dated ku's Baby Jay.   :secret:

(Admitting this probably makes me less EMAWy.)

You're a chick?  Or are you just a little  :ku:?

The answer is "no" to both questions.  Baby Jay is always a girl.

What if a certain mancer wanted to try out?  Would they let him?