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OSU tradition s are all around you. Record them in the Cowboy Legend app to earn prizes and keep a digital scrapbook of your OSU experience. Get started. About OSU. Back To Top. He lived out his life just outside of Stillwater in the town of Perkins. He obliged, bringing his gun and wearing his outfit to games on the sidelines.
After his death, the school honored him by officially creating a Pistol Pete mascot. There are very many rules and regulations if you want to be a Pete.
Each yeah, two men are chosen by their school spirit, grade-point average and other categories. Besides appearing at every home OSU sporting event, they also do hundreds of special appearances at parties and other events throughout the state. The best part about Pete? He constantly does little things for laughs and good spirit. It first started in by the band director and a student by the name of John Beall. He used his own horse, named Della, for OSU football games for the next several years.
Whenever the Cowboys score a touchdown or field goal at the Alamo Bowl, Ohio State fans will see every Oklahoma State fan stand up and wave their right arm back and forth.
Then get really quiet and wave one arm. The Bedlam football wins over OU in and definitely fall into that frame, for example. One of the worst probations in NCAA history in the s and 90s and past neglect in funding in the 50s and 60s set the program back while powerhouses were cropping up all over the nation.
Henry Iba, the athletic director and legendary basketball coach, turned down offers from auto dealers in the state to set up slush funds to help recruit a winning program though another school down South did, winning three titles in the 50s soon after that deal. But Mr. Iba was a man of rules and morals and said football would be treated the same as every other sport at OAMC.
And while championships abounded in wrestling, basketball and baseball under his watch, the football program decayed. No conference championship since a three-way co-title with Nebraska and Colorado in But with the hiring of Les Miles as head coach in , OSU has put together its best string of success ever, becoming only the second coach to lead the Cowboys to bowls in three-straight seasons.
Pat Jones was the other, taking OSU to bowls in The past two seasons the Cowboys have been in the thick of the Big 12 Conference South Division race, before losses to Oklahoma and Texas in back-to-back games both years. In his four seasons in Stillwater, he has been a Luke Skywalker of sorts, organizing the rebellion against the evil empire OU and giving folks in orange reason to hope again when the sweltering Summer fades into the cool Fall. After a season in , Miles has shown progress in the program each year.
With a landmark victory over OU in , the Cowboys built on that by going in with a win over Southern Mississippi in the Houston Bowl. Then a season and Cotton Bowl berth followed. This season was intriguing from the start, especially having to replace quarterback Josh Fields left for pro baseball , running back Tatum Bell now making waves for the Denver Broncos and wide receiver Rashaun Woods currently stuck in the mess that is San Francisco.
But the Cowboys survived and, for the most part, had a very solid season. There are big expectations in Stillwater. Most fans feel the Cowboys have the talent to finally get over the hump and compete for a Big 12 championship in and and beyond. After decades of neglect, the OSU football program is quickly growing for many reasons. The stadium and the gameday atmosphere: Hope you like wearing orange Like above, the football stadium was — for many years — totally ignored.
Fallen into disrepair, Lewis Field had become nothing more than a giant high school stadium. But because of oil magnate and OSU alum Boone Pickens, OSU is one third of the way through a three-phase project which will add luxury suites, a horseshoe end to connect the north and south stands and expand the seating to about 55, The work will be complete in time for the season. Because of the winning seasons recently, attendance has increase. To that end, pre-game atmosphere in Stillwater has exploded.
All the parking lots around Pickens Stadium have picked up with sizable tailgates. Before the OU game this year, folks parked in the lots the night before and camped out. The gameday atmosphere in Stillwater has excelled in part to two new traditions. The Walk is great fun.
Fans will leave their tailgates at that time and line the streets in orange, while the pom squad, Bullet and The Spirit Rider crew, the Spirit of Oklahoma State band and the players wearing suits will walk up the street, while fans cheer and greet them. When the game is on, OSU fans do several different things.
This works well in Stillwater because the stadium is divided into two stands on the north and south side. Yes, our football field runs East-West. Prevailing winds in Oklahoma. Typically, in the fall, Oklahoma received cuttingly cold winds out of the North from the Rockies and Canada.
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