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"linguistically awkward"
"The cardinal," like "the eagle," "the giraffe," or "the hippo."
Wow! What sports teams are those?!
let's see:
The eagles participate in swoopstakes, giraffe are into basketball, and hippos are sumo wrestlers.
TEd
It ain't the Bird, folks.
Cardinal has been the color of Stanford athletic teams since 1892 and was adopted in 1972 as the official name for Stanford sports. www.stanford.edu
OP Exactly, it isn't the bird. It's just "The Cardinal." (I wonder if they have an arch-rival that is "The Ordinal"?) Then again, it is very similar to Harvard ("The Harvard Crimson"), and I guess it could be referring to "those who are cardinal in color" the same way that "the annointed" would refer to an implied group who were annointed.
Looking over a list of college sports nicknames at http://www.smargon.net/nicknames/ I see that many colleges in fact are simply named after a color. A sampling:
Blue --- Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts)
Big Blue --- Millikin University (Decatur, Illinois)
Big Blues --- Bluefield State College (Bluefield, West Virginia)
Big Green --- Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)
Big Red --- Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) and Denison University (Granville, Ohio)
Blues --- Mississippi University for Women (Columbus, Mississippi)
Crimson --- Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Crimson Storm --- Southern Nazarene University (Bethany, Oklahoma) (changed in August 1998 from Redskins)
Crimson Tide --- University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
Crimson Wave --- Calumet College of St. Joseph (Whiting, Indiana)
However, far more entertaining names are to be found away from colors:
Hustlin' Quakers --- Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana)
Ichabods --- Washburn University (Topeka, Kansas) (men's team)
Medics --- Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Swordsmen --- Life Bible College-East (Christiansburg, Virginia)
Women of Troy --- University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) (women's team)
Wonder Boys --- Arkansas Tech University (Russellville, Arkansas) (men's team)
Hatters --- Stetson University (Deland, Florida)
Black Flies --- College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, Maine)
The game of the year is always when the (Geneva, NY) Hobart Statesmen play the (Lancaster, PA) Franklin and Marshall College Diplomats.
"It ain't the bird"
My, that is awkward!
(shows you how much I follow sports (beyond my lane mate at the swimming pool))
Oh my. I just hope they do not have a series of spring formal dances every year.
Yes, they would be known as the Big Blue balls.
TEd
OP If Life Bible College-East played Univ of So.California in basketball, and the latter team had excellent defense, would you say that the Swordsmen were enveloped by Trojans? Or if Life Bible College-East won the game, would you say the Swordsmen ripped through the Trojans?
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