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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeXtreme, post: 1934175, member: 41"] It was all a hoax: [I]The Saltine Warrior, an Indian figure named Big Chief Bill Orange, was born in a hoax published in The Syracuse Orange Peel, October 1931. The remains of this 16th century Onondagan chief were supposedly found in the excavations near [URL='http://archives.syr.edu/buildings/steele.html']Steele Hall[/URL], the relocation site for the [URL='http://archives.syr.edu/buildings/gym_old.html']women's gymnasium[/URL] in 1928. In the mid-1950's, the father of a Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity brother owned a cheerleading camp. He made a Saltine Warrior costume for his son to wear at SU football games. Thus began a nearly forty-year tradition of Lambda Chi brothers serving as SU's mascot. [URL="http://archives.syr.edu/exhibits/spirit_athletics.html"]Syracuse University Archives: Exhibits - Spirit of Tradition: Athletic Traditions and Mascots[/URL] [/I] [/QUOTE]