Nittany Lion - Pennsylvania State University - University Park, PA
N 40° 47.811 W 077° 52.138
18T E 257961 N 4520167
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Waymark Code: WM148XJ
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 05/20/2021
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The Penn State baseball team was playing Princeton in April of 1904. A sophomore, third baseman Harrison (Joe) Mason began what would be a long tradition. In his words, "As you students well know, sophomores are generally pretty cocky chaps, and when these two escorted us into their beautiful gymnasium, they stopped us in front of a splendid mounted figure of a Bengal tiger. One chap spoke up: "See our emblem, the Princeton Tiger, the fiercest beast of them all." An idea came to me, and I replied, "Well, up at Penn State we have Mount Nittany right on our campus, where rules the Nittany Mountain Lion, who has never been beaten in a fair fight. So, Princeton Tiger, look out!"
Penn State beat Princeton 8-1 that afternoon.
(from The Nittany Lion, An Illustrated Tale, by Jackie R. Esposito and Steven L. Herb)
Heinrich (Heinz) Warneke created this sculpture. A half sized version is located at each branch campus. The class of 1940 commissioned this sculpture.
School name: The Pennsylvania State University
Artist: Heinz Warneke
Year Created/Dedicated: October 3, 1942
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