Ralphie the Buffalo, University of Colorado - Aurora, CO
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Outspoken1
N 39° 44.767 W 104° 50.258
13S E 513910 N 4399591
OK, there are no buffalo in North or South America - this is a bison!
Waymark Code: WMNW7P
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 05/10/2015
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The plaque reads:
The UCHSC [University of Colorado Health Science Center] Buffalo
(Colorado Yule Marble)
Contributed by the sculptor
Regent Robert Sievers
May 1, 1997
The above date would reflect the decommissioned Fitzsimons Army Medical Center becoming the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. The building is open to the public Monday thru Friday, 8 am to 5 pm.
"The two mascots present at all football games are Ralphie, a live buffalo, and Chip, a costumed mascot who was selected to the 2003 Capital One All-America Mascot Team and won the 2009 and 2010 UCA Mascot National Championships. Ralphie is actually Ralphie V and leads the football team onto the field at the beginning of the first and second halves. A buffalo leading the team onto the field dates as far back as 1934 and the Ralphie tradition began in 1966. In 1934 after the selection of Buffaloes as a nickname when a group of students paid $25 to rent a buffalo calf and cowboy as his keeper for the last game of the season. The calf was the son of Killer, a famed bison at Trails End Ranch in Fort Collins, Colorado. It took the cowboy and four students to keep the calf under control on the sidelines during the game, a 7-0 win at the University of Denver on Thanksgiving Day." (from (
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