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I have been asked numorious times sence i got to college about the exact deffinition of a Hoosier. As any person form indiana knows, this is a very difficult question to awnser. So, i found this link that i think addresses this perplexing question very well:
Personally, I think the term Hoosier is used because "Indianaean" is just to hard to say (and spell, for that matter...).
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Well clearly the term is as legitimate or illegitimate as a "Sooner" or a "Hokie". What the heck inspires colleges to adopt these weird titles? When I was small I thought TN fans were "Voles" not "Volunteers"
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I went to high school in Oklahoma, but due to my contrarian nature, I always cheered for whoever was playing against OU.
I was tickled pink when I discovered that their mascot, the Sooner, was a criminal in the Oklahoma land rush.
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the college adopted it from the people of indiana. People who dont relate to the college at all still call themselves Hossiers.
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I think it's cute when those flat, featureless states try to come up with something significant with which to identify themselves. Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999
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only part of Indiana is flat, the glasers sort of stoped half way through the state. Brown County for example is quite hilly. We have the Hill Hundered bike race. The name Hossiers has been around for ages, one therie is that it refered to french fur traders back in the day.
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my fourth grade teacher said it came from "who's there" being screamed through the woods. How it came to be so commonly used though I'm not sure.
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