MACHIAVELLI
Chairman/C.E.O.
What is the origin of your schools Nickname?
-- Grambling State -- The Tigers are so-named because the founders of the school, many from the Baton Rouge area, wanted their program to emulate that of LSU.
-- Southern -- This much is certain of Southern -- its teams originally were called the Bushmen. According to Dr. Everett Baker, a historian associated with the school, Southern changed the name to Jaguars "in the early 1930s." The reason for the change, Baker said, "doesn't appear in any of the records."
LA Schools Ncknames
-- Grambling State -- The Tigers are so-named because the founders of the school, many from the Baton Rouge area, wanted their program to emulate that of LSU.
-- Southern -- This much is certain of Southern -- its teams originally were called the Bushmen. According to Dr. Everett Baker, a historian associated with the school, Southern changed the name to Jaguars "in the early 1930s." The reason for the change, Baker said, "doesn't appear in any of the records."
LA Schools Ncknames