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Oklahoma State University Traditions and History:
The Walk
A tradition that began with head coach Les Miles continues
with head coach Mike Gundy. The night before football games, the team stays in the Atherton Hotel
at the Student Union. On game day, two hours and fifteen minutes prior to the start of the game,
the team walks down Hester Street to Boone Pickens Stadium. Coach Gundy leads the spirited parade,
followed by the OSU Marching band, the spirit squad, and, of course, the players. Fans already
at the stadium gather on the side of the road and cheer their Cowboys on to victory. This tradition
quickly became a favorite of Cowboy fans, creating a new and exciting way for the team to enter the
stadium.
Oklahoma State's Athletics Department
has long been known as one of the most tradition-rich programs in the country - not just
in one or two sports, but throughout its Department of Athletics.
OSU has accumulated 48 NCAA National Championships over the years, the fourth-most in NCAA history. Only
Stanford, USC and UCLA own more national titles.
In the Directors Cup standings, OSU has finished among the top 30 programs six times since the award's
inception in 1994. The cup is designed to recognize and rate the best all-around athletics programs in
the country.
Individually, more than 140 OSU student-athletes have won national titles, including Cowboy wrestlers Johny
Hendricks and Jake Rosholt, and menšs golfer Jonathan Moore this spring.
While competing in the Big Eight Conference, the Cowboys and Cowgirls won 135 team titles and crowned 500
individual conference champions.
History Of Pistol Pete:
Around 1923, when Oklahoma A & M College was searching for
a new mascot to replace their tiger (copied along with orange and black colors, from Princeton), a group of
students saw Frank Eaton leading the Armistice Day Parade. He was approached to see if he would be interested
in being the model for the new mascot, and he agreed. A likeness was drawn and began to be used on sweatshirts,
stickers, etc. and a tradition was born.
Though Pistol Pete has been OSU's mascot since 1923, only since 1958 has someone worn the current garb
and "head".
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