Mascots

Overview 2002 University of Denver (DU) Pioneers women's basketball player Melissa Garcia stands next to her parents and Ruckus the mascot to celebrate her last home game for the Pioneers before a game against New Orleans in the Magness Arena in Denver, Colorado.

Overview 2002 University of Denver (DU) Pioneers women's basketball mascot Ruckus preforms at half court during intermission in a game against University of South Alabama in the Magness Arena in Denver, Colorado.

Overview 2002 University of Denver (DU) Pioneers women's basketball mascot Ruckus preforms at half court during intermission in a game against University of South Alabama in the Magness Arena in Denver, Colorado.

Overview Contact prints of 35 millimeter roll of film. Frame 2: Two baseball players shake hands while Rockies mascot and three other men stand nearby. Frame 3: Man and baseball player shake hands while Rockies mascot, second player and another man stand nearby. Frame 4: Baseball player offers hand to man while Rockies mascot, second baseball player and another man stand nearby. Frame 5: Baseball player and man shake hands while Rockies mascot, second baseball player and another man stand nearby. Frame...

Overview Photograph shows Lou Tobin posing with a person wearing a bird costume. The person wearing the costume is also wearing a shirt with an anti- Seattle Seahawks logo on it. The shirt is likely referencing the football rivalry between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. The costume looks like a chicken mascot. Photograph is in color.

Overview Images and papers related to the history of the University of Denver's mascots, from Pioneer Pete to Denver Boone to Ruckus: 3 black and white prints of Denver Boone with students; playing arcade games; with a young child. Clarion online story (2007): "Why Denver Boone got the boot at DU" Memo from Public Relations about Denver Boone (1974) Clarion newspaper clipping (1984): "DU's PR Reviews Images of Boone; New Logo to Phase Out Old Mascot" Clarion newspaper clipping of parody article (1985):...

Overview Images of former University of Denver mascot "Denver Boone": 1 medium format black and white negative of Boone riding a truck in a parade. 2 black and white prints, including Boone at basketball games; and Boone with students. 2 sets of black and white negatives with contact sheets, including Boone at basketball games; and DU band students in a car. 15 color negatives of Boone at a telethon (?). 3 copies of a DU basketball ad with a logo of Boone.

Overview Images from Homecoming 1995 at the University of Denver: 2 color prints, including the class of 1995 10-year reunion. 13 black and white prints, including images from the bonfire/pep rally; an alumni float in the Homecoming parade; Denver Boone singing with a band onstage at a BBQ on Driscoll Green; the class of 1970 25-year reunion; images from the Homecoming parade; alumni in front of their double decker bus for the Alumni Parade; Chancellor Daniel Ritchie riding in covered wagon in parade;...

Overview 23 color slides from Homecoming 1996 at the University of Denver, including students getting caricatures drawn; Denver Boone playing with children at the Boone Barbeque; images from the Homecoming parade; and alumni in front of their double decker bus for the Alumni Parade.

Overview 3 color prints of former University of Denver mascot "Ruckus" the red-tailed hawk, including Ruckus at a Homecoming BBQ and at a basketball game.