From 1965 through 1969, a mascot in a wooly and wild bison costume patrolled the Hoosier sidelines. Now, according to IU Bloomington student body president Cooper Tinsley, Bloomington is once ...

Finley originally wrote Hoosier as "Hoosher ... In 1965, the student senate voted the bison, an animal once native to Bloomington and on the Indiana state seal, as the official mascot.