'Cougar Prowl' before USC at WSU football game 9/25/2010
Based on a 9/14/2010 news release from WSU News Service
‘Cougar Prowl’ name of new WSU Football tradition
“Cougar Prowl” is the name of a Cougar Football tradition at Washington State University.
A Sept. 24, 2010, WSU news release said Dave Teitzel, one of 100 people who submitted the name to WSU Athletics in a “Name the Team Walk” contest, was selected contest winner through a random drawing made by “Butch the Cougar.” Teitzel received a football autographed by the WSU football team.
A committee of athletic department staff and football representatives chose the name for the Cougar pride walk which started – using a generic “Cougar Pride Walk” identification -- before the 2010 first home football game, Sept. 11 versus Montana State.
The first time the “Cougar Prowl” name was used was before the 2010 home game against Southern Cal.
The Cougar Prowl begins before every WSU home football game at the Cougar Pride statue, located to the WSU Athletics Ticket Office on Stadium Way. It ends at Hollingbery Fieldhouse. Two buses arrive carrying football team members. Each player and coach touches the statue. “Butch the Cougar” and a portion of the WSU Cougar Marching Band takes part, too. The players walk from the statue to the football locker room in Bohler Gymnasium.
