Gotta go with the University of Akron Zips - my favorite school. "Zips" stems from "Zippers", which was a rubber overshoe made by the BF Goodrich Company in the 1920s/30s. A campus-wide vote then made the mascot Zippy, a female kangaroo.
In the mid-2000s, a marketing campaign began to make everything about the logo/nickname/mascot more intimidating. "Fear The Roo" was the obvious choice. But in the end, we still have a female marsupial for a mascot, and are named after a freaking overshoe - not a regular shoe, but an overshoe.
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