Brutus Buckeye is the athletics mascot of Ohio State University and an anthropomorphic buckeye nut. Brutus made his debut in 1965, with periodic updates to design and wardrobe occurring in the years since.

Prior to 1965, Ohio State had no mascot. It was that year students in Ohio Stater’s, Incorporated (a long-standing student service organization that is still in existence today), took matters into their own hands and launched an effort to create a mascot for the school.

2017年1月23日 · Our mascot, Brutus, represents one seed of the Ohio buckeye tree, attached, obviously, to a human body. This is a most unusual mascot. Most institutions use fierce animals or symbols of strength; very few have a plant.

2018年6月4日 · One of Ohio State’s most storied figures, the founding of Brutus Buckeye began with the hard work and dedication of Ohio State students and student organizations. Ohio …

2024年8月29日 · In 1965, two Ohio State students, Sally Lanyon and Ray Bourhis, realized Ohio State needed a mascot—and what better than a nut from the state tree? Though we now expect to see Brutus at...

2007年6月17日 · One of the more visible symbols of Ohio State athletics is Brutus Buckeye, the school’s mascot. Brutus first appeared in 1965. Selection for Brutus Buckeye is accomplished by a tryout process.

2021年1月11日 · Ohio State's mascot — the aptly named Brutus Buckeye — actually predates the buckeye sticker tradition. Per Ohio State, he debuted three years prior on Oct. 30, 1965, as part of the...

2017年7月20日 · Brutus was the brainchild of two students at the school in 1965 — Ray Bourhis and Sally Huber — who decided that a Buckeye should be the school's mascot as it was the official tree of Ohio.

In 1965, Ohio State University students Ray Bourhis and Sally Huber Lanyon had one simple goal: sneak a large papier-mache buckeye into Ohio Stadium and unveil it at the homecoming game. “I was really nervous that this wasn’t going to go well,” Lanyon told us in 2015.

Ohio State finally got an actual “Buckeye” mascot when Ray Bourhis and Sally Lanyon created the now-ubiquitous Brutus Buckeye, who made his first appearance at a football game on October 30, 1965.