Dragon Pride Friday
On Fridays, the Dragon community is encouraged to wear red or Dragon garb to celebrate our campus athletic traditions and our academic mission.
Our school colors are red and white. The Dragon symbol was adopted by our campus after the fire that destroyed Old Main in 1930. Legend has it that Flora Frick (Frick Hall), who taught women's athletics and German from 1919 until her death in 1958, came up with "Dragons" as she watched the football team run onto the playing field on a crisp autumn afternoon. As their breath steamed, she was said to remark: "Why, they look like dragons!"
It's a great story, but the truth is that, shortly after the fire, the student body voted to change the team name from the Teachers, or Peds, to the Dragons. It does sound better.
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