What is a wushock mascot

Back in the early days of WSU, when it was still known as Fairmount College, many of the players on the colleges newly formed football team, earned tuition money by harvesting wheat.

A common practice in wheat harvesting is to tie the wheat together in a bundle called a shock. The schock is later processed into wheat kernels. Kappa Pi honorary art fraternity held a competition to make a mascot for the school. Junior Wilbur Elsea had the winning design.

His concept was a tough, no-nonsense early version of the Wu we know today. Later that same year WuShock got his name via another contest. Freshman Jack Kersting had the winning entry. He derived the name from the school initials W. Hopefully, so will you. Learn more about Wichita State University.

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