The earliest recording of a mascot is believed to be from a football game between Harvard and Yale in 1894 when a live bear cub was on the sideline. For Notre Dame, it started using an Irish ...

Two days before the Harvard-Yale game of 1933 the Associated ... A rumor had seeped out that Handsome Dan H, Yale's mascot, had been kidnapped. A bulldog, clutched by two young men with caps ...