"Och Tamale"
When rival Occidental College students shouted their school cheer, Io Triumphe, at a football game against the U of R, no one could figure out what they were saying. (Did they even understand the Latin phrases they were yelling?) To poke fun at the rivals’ elitist chant, cheerleader C. Merle Waterman ’20 and classmates Walter J. Richards ’21 and Jack Slutsk ’22 wrote their own cheer of gibberish: the “Och Tamale!” To this day, Bulldogs still chant the “Och Tamale” at sporting events and as a greeting to fellow alumni around
the world.
Bulldog Bone
Who took the toughest hit in the last football game? Players vote on the answer and the winner signs the giant papier-mâché bone hanging outside the locker room. The bone was created by Sara Hoza (wife of Kirk Hoza, then of Athletics Recruiting) in 1990, and Bulldogs have been signing ever since. Go Dawgs!