A second mascot was purchased from a circus in Pat II was not replaced until the fall of when Austin College students bought a six-month-old female Australian wallaby named Katy. Katy was small—about three feet high and seventy-five pounds at maturity—and lived in a pen built especially for her next to the gymnasium. Fitted with a harness, Katy and her handlers dashed up and down the football field during halftime. Katy died in the summer of Grand Ave. Hours later a gunshot rang out in nearby Treasury Gardens and their true intentions became clear.
So how does he show his young kids how to be everyday Aussies? Read Today's Paper Tributes. Melbourne Don't miss out on the headlines from Melbourne. Join the conversation. Add your comment to this story To join the conversation, please log in. From the beginning the University of Kansas City has done things a little differently. Not only is a kangaroo perhaps an unusual choice for a mascot it also became the university mascot even before the university had any sports teams!
The story of the kangaroo began in with a series of articles in the Kansas City Star about the Swope Park Zoo acquiring two baby kangaroos.
A group of students began suggesting that the university should have a symbol and a kangaroo would work well since the word kangaroo rhymed with KCU. The students additionally suggested the kangaroo could be the mascot for the Debate Team since the young university did not have any athletic teams.
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