Ohio State University Football: Lore and Traditions by BarkerC

Champion(s):

GrahamJ
The real world is complex, so remember your origin.


Runner(s)-Up:

PeskinK


Quiz Description

Given clues, name the following about lore and traditions Ohio State University football team. I'm going to try and be nice. I promise.

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1 GrahamJ 405 97 15
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2 PeskinK 404 92 15
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3 Adam 395 86 15
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4 LewandowskiMJ 384 81 15
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5 ConnorA 368 76 15
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6 BeanA 363 71 15
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Questions:

Set to the tune of " Spanish Hymn" or "Spanish Chant", this alma mater of Ohio State University, written in the wake of an 86-0 loss to Michigan, has been sung at the conclusion of every OSU home game since 2001.

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Carmen Ohio (or Song of Ohio)

In 1934, new Ohio State coach Francis Schmidt introduced this trinket to Ohio State football lore, given to a Buckeye player for defeating Michigan.

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gold pants

Turning 50 years old in 2015, this live mascot of the OSU football team has undergone several incarnations during the last half century, beginning as a simple papier-mâché construct.

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Brutus Buckeye

Who lives in a very bad part of town and wears a red dress, yeah, as old as the hills? (Everyone tried to bring her down, it's all very sad.)

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Sloopy (as in Hang On Sloopy)

Since 1990s, OSU students have conducted a ritualized jump into this lake during "Michigan Week". Michigan Week is in November, so it's kind of cold.

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Mirror Lake

Since 1928, Illinois and Ohio State have played for Illibuck, a carved wooden likeness of what kind of animal?

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turtle

What coach, a Woody Hayes disciple, was fired (allegedly in a fit of pique by school president Edward Harrington Jennings) after losing to Iowa, the team's third straight loss in November 1987? He would be allowed to coach Ohio State in The Game and would win 23-20.

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Earle Bruce

Currently President of West Virginia University, what two-time Ohio State University president and noted bow tie aficionado proclaimed the 1992 Michigan/Ohio State game, a 13-13 tie, as "This tie is one of our greatest wins ever." and prompted him to call for his then current head coach's return for the next year.

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E. Gordon Gee

What former Arizona State coach brought Ohio State entered the Michigan game undefeated and ranked in the top five in 1993, 1995, and 1996, only to lose all three games?

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John Cooper

While facing Purdue on November 9, 2002, a late game touchdown pass by Craig Krenzel on "King Right 64 Y Shallow Swap" to Michael Jenkins, preserving OSU perfect season, was famously given what two word name by Brent Musburger in his call of the game.

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Holy Buckeye!

In 2011, in the wake of "Tattoogate", this interim head coach, still on the coaching staff at Ohio State, led the Buckeyes to a 6-7 record, their only on-field losing record for a season since 1988.

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Luke Fickell

Proof that it really is the center of the Michigan/Ohio State universe, Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh were born six months apart at this city's old Mercy Hospital.

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Toledo, Ohio