And school legend holds that a student suggested the Nittany Lion mascot as a rival to Princeton University’s tiger. The Nittany Lions went in to halftime of the Orange Bowl up 10-3 on Notre Dame.
On April 20 of that year, a handful of Princeton players jeered Penn State's team as they arrived, pointing to a statue of their own mascot, the Bengal Tiger, as some show of strength. Mason ...
The origin of the mascot started with the Princeton Tigers boasting about their Tiger mascot on April 20, 1904. Harrison "Joe" Mason, the third-baseman of Pennsylvania State University then ...