Boxer, Pacific's Mascot

Students wrestle over ice-encased Boxer

A copy of a newspaper photograph showing Pacific University freshman student Bob Conover (Class of 1960) fighting over the school's Boxer statue. In this fight, which the students called a "Boxer Toss," student groups were fighting to gain possession of the statue, which had been frozen into a block of ice. This appears to have occurred during Homecoming festivities on Oct. 29, 1955 according to other newspaper accounts.

This collection brings together archival material on the history of 'Boxer,' Pacific University's mascot. Letters, news clippings, photographs and other items are included, illustrating its history from when the Boxer statue first arrived on campus in the 1890s through its disappearance in 1970. Efforts to find, recreate and commemorate the statue since that time are also covered.

1956

PUA_MS95_49.pdf

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

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