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Chattanooga Moc(casin)s or Chattanooga Moc(king bird)s?
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Cody Dockens 8 months ago
or chattanooga moc football program.
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Brock Sexington 2 months ago
Moc(kingbird) would be my guess because of the bird that flies across the screen on the athletics website, although a UTC alum that I worked with swears that there was a mascot walking around in a mocassin costume back when he attended in the late 1980s.
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James Paschke about 1 month ago
It is the mockingbirds. Changed from moccassins to get away from irritating the native indians.
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Drew Holland 10 days ago
Many want to know how we became the Mocs, and it is a long history indeed . . taking the name from Moccasin bend we adopted a water moccasin as our mascot in the 1920s, along the way we changed the mascot to a Cherokee tribesman: Chief Chattamoc, and in the 60s & 70s we used a moccasin shoe as UTC’s mascot. In the late 70s our mascot returned to a Cherokee tribesman, this time Chief Mocanooga, but due to concerns of ethnic sensitivity, we adopted a new mascot in the ’96, ’97 school year – Scrappy.
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