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[QUOTE="cabbie191, post: 4677558, member: 417"]
When I was looking at the thread on the sale of artwork from Gampel, I had an "aha" moment when I looked at the two pendants with the "old" and "new" Jonathans.  It has been ten years since the logo was changed and I must admit that for quite a long time, I was unhappy with the change.  My aha was the realization that I now prefer the new logo to the older version, and I couldn't begin to guess when this occurred in my head.

I came across an interesting article on the history of our logo:  [URL='https://www.homefieldapparel.com/blogs/homefield-history/uconn-logo-history-sad-dog']The incredible evolution of UConn's Husky logo[/URL]

Highlights:

1) The original nickname of the school was the Aggies, which made sense when the school was Storrs Agricultural School.

2) The mascot was changed to the Huskies in 1934 by a vote of the student body who adopted the name of Jonathan at the same time.

3) Huskies because of the similarity between UConn and Yukon where the breed is native?   Not likely because it was another five years before the school became the University of Connecticut.

4) The image below shows all the versions of Jonathan.

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First name of men's bb coach