| 词条 | Willie the Wildcat (Northwestern) |
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| name = Willie the Wildcat | image =20180206 UM-NW Willie the Wildcat 7DM27187.jpg | image_size = | caption =Willie the Wildcat in 2018 | university = Northwestern University | conference = Big Ten Conference | conference_short = Big Ten | description = Anthropomorphic wildcat | name_origin = | first_seen = 1933 | birthdate = November 16 | related_mascots = | official_website = }} Willie the Wildcat is the mascot for the Northwestern University Wildcats. History{{multiple image| align = left | direction = horizontal | header = Willie the Wildcat | image1 = Williethewildcatnu.jpg | caption1 = c. 2007 | width1 = 123 | image2 = Willie the Wildcat (1961).jpg | caption2 = c. 1961 | width2 = 150 }} The name "Wildcats" was bestowed upon the university in 1924 by a writer for the Chicago Tribune who wrote that even in a loss to the University of Chicago Maroons, the Northwestern football players looked like "Wildcats [that] had come down from Evanston." The name was so popular that university board members made "Wildcats" the official nickname just months later. In 1933, the Northwestern athletic department and an advertising firm created the first image of Willie. However, he did not come to life until 1947, when members of the Alpha Delta fraternity dressed up as him during the Homecoming parade. In 2007, the first football game revealed a new-look Willie after a "makeover". Evanston Township High School, the largest public high school in Evanston, has Willie the Wildkit as its mascot, in direct relation to Northwestern. References
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