In the first football season after Vermont voted on its nickname, a story published in The Vermont Cynic on Sept. 24, 1926 called the team "Vermont Catamounts," including the quotation marks.

A poster touts an exhibit of the last catamount, or mountain lion, seen in Vermont, which was shot and stuffed in 1881. A: You bet — it's in the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

The Catamounts shot over 50% from the field. Vermont had four players score in double figures, demonstrating a balanced attack. Vermont women's basketball (17-12, 12-3) picked up where it left off ...

Vermont shares the catamount mascot with one other school. That would be Western Carolina, located in Cullowhee, North Carolina. WCU has been called the Catamounts since 1932.

Vermont led 29-17 in front of the 3,213 frenzied Catamount fans in attendance at halftime, but the Knights seized a 10-point lead with just over three minutes to play and sealed the game at the line.

Vermont, a school whose arena holds 3,000 people, faced maybe the most popular men's basketball program in the USA - but the Catamounts had home-court advantage.