[Hoodat]

You forgot ‘Plainsmen’ for Auburn and ‘Engineers’ for Georgia Tech. Virginia Tech has ‘Hokies’ and ‘Gobblers’, but they are trying to forget the latter. As for Virginia, the word on Vinegar Hill is that a ‘Wahoo’ is a fish that drinks a lot.

[Scoutmaster]

I don't think Auburn has ever been the Plainsman (which comes the poem that refers to Auburn as "the loveliest village on the plains"). Alabama Polytechnic Institute, became Auburn University in 1960. API may have used the Plainsmen. If they did, the college's mascot was changed to the Tigers before 1960 - the "Aubie" tiger mascot first appeared on football programs in October 1959.

And as the father of a UVA graduate, yes, the wahoo is a allegedly a fish that can inhale large amounts of water to make itself larger and scare off predators. It's ability to 'drink' so much gives way to UVA nickname of Wahoos.

Most of my money went to pay tuition, but some it went towards a "Hoos" t-shirt.

As for Harvard's Crimson and the Johns, I swear there was a third name for the Athletic teams - but it's been a long time since I was a student, and I can't remember the other name, if, in fact, it existed.