Here are some from Texas that make you say WTF:

Kerrville Tivy Antlers
Rocksprings Angores
Robstown Cotton Pickers
Bryan St. Michael Academy Dragon Slayers
Farmersville Fightin' Farmers
Baytown Lee Ganders
Harlingen Marine Military Academy Leathernecks Cisco Loboes
Munday Moguls

Houston Morris Academy Praying Hands
Mason Punchers
Hamlin Pied Pipers
Bonham Purple Warriors

Universal City Randolph Ro-Hawks

We played South Park CO. in football (yes there really is such a School in the town of fairplay) they are the fighting Burrows.

Scottsdale Junior College in Scottsdale Arizona:

School colors: Lace & Pink
Mascot: The Fighting Artichokes

I KID YOU NOT!!!

This is what happens when the students of the late '60s were allowed to come up with and vote on the school colors and mascot. It was some sort of protest against the military-idustrial complex embodied by intercollegiate team sports--or something like that.

Trego Golden Eagles(purple&gold)
boring

That's an urban legend, it's not true!

Now its just Friends University(FU)

How about the Big Spring, Texas Steers?

At least that's what I assume their mascot is. It was on the town water tower. Surely it creates lots of opportunities for their opponents to get some digs in.

OK Rosemont University might take the cake they are the ROSEMONSTERS!

not an urban legend I grew up there and have a picture with my best friend standing outside garvey gym with it in the back ground you could see it as you drove by on the by pass

Ahhh! Very good Daniel-son. Fairbury is indeed the Jeffs or the Jeffmen as some like to be called. The Jeff comes from the old cartoon Mutt and Jeff.

Thanks coach moore-agi!

A school that had a similar problem like Friends university was Furman university in South Carolina.

They were called the Furman University Christian Knights.

Spell the initials out and you can see why they changed it.

Back in the 70's, there was a company making some money on shirts from the "Sam Houston Institute of Technology". Of course, no such institution existed but didn't stop them from making a profit.

Pretty sure there is a high school in Arizona with a mascot - the "Convicts" - no joke. Major employer in town is a state prison.

I once saw a picture of Arizona state champs and one was dressed in the white and gray striped garb sometimes found in a prison -so I asked why. Fella from Arizona showing me the picture, gave me the story.

Pretty unique.

Not as funny as the Sam Houston bit or the Friends story, but back in college one of our rivals was Mid-America Nazarene College, called MANC. I was told that a few years ago, they changed their name to Mid-America Nazarene University of Religious Education, its acronym spelling out MANURE. Just a little HAAC rivalry humor...

Never heard this and I held season tickets to Furman's Football team, A traditional NCAA 1AA power, and basketball team, still holds the record for most points by a player in a NCAA D1 game. Furman is known and has been known for as long as I can remember the Furman University Paladins. I don't know what they were known of as years ago, but seems like I would have heard of that after being there and being involved in their athletic program.

An interesting note is that their school president does lead a cheer at each football and basketball game. It goes, "F.U. 1x, F.U. 2X, F.U. 3x, F.U. all the time." I wish I was making that up but I promise I am not. One of the best places in the country to see a football game.

Nigel,
I take it you aren't a Notre Dame fan, since they have the same little man as Chapman does.

It was Phillips University in Enid, OK and yes they were the P.U. Skunks. I went to Adams Elementary right across the street from Phillips and we were the "Flying A's" It was literally a letter A with wings.

These are all from Nebraska
Minden Whippets (basically a greyhound)
Ord Chanticleers (it is some fighting chicken)
Gothenburg Sweedes (Sweedish people)

Interesting this should come up. I actually did my senior project this year on unusual college mascots. Weird, I know. About the Banana Slugs, that's actually UC Santa Cruz, not UC Santa Barbara. My personal favorite is Artie the Fighting Artichoke.

PMS---there are a few of them around here in Kansas.