The Legend of the Stolen Mascots

ID: 3207 ~ Source: Smith, Gordon, interviewed by Clint Patterson, November 29, 2014 in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, Texas. Access full interview here.
This file appears in: The Baylor Bear Habitat

Trainer Gordon Smith worked with the Bear Program in the late 1950s and was on the Baylor track team. Smith recalls a group of Baylor students fooling the rest of the university.

This file appears in: The Baylor Bear Habitat

By Maria Petrolia
One of the most popular places to visit on Baylor University’s campus is the Bill and Eva Williams Bear Habitat, home to Baylor’s live bear mascot. The first habitat was built in 1945, but through the…