Kevin Discepolo, assistant athletic director of facilities, operations, and events, left, the present caretaker of the Yale University mascot Walter, an Olde English Bulldogge, at Yale Field with ...

Meet the canine college mascots who are the pride of their universities. ... It's football season, ... the University of Georgia, Gonzaga, Yale and many more schools − at least 42 altogether.

(Adam Glanzman // Getty Images) Handsome Dan - Instagram followers: 42.6K followers - School: Yale University. Yale University was the first institution in America to adopt a live animal mascot.

(Stacker) - As one of the oldest colleges in the United States, it seems fitting that Yale was also one of the first higher education institutions to have a mascot. Back in 1890, an article in the ...