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Title: Cow Bell Question
Post by: MattS on May 03, 2025, 08:42:23 PM
I pick up a small cow bell at a yard sale. They guy thought it was from Stanford and that the "C" on it was for Cardinals. However by the look of it I think the "C" looks more like a Cornell "C".  Does anyone know if CU sold or gave away cow bell at sometime in the past?

Link to picture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bHR7Fr2KURTtqPqGl8KexIqVGx8nJlTm/view?usp=drivesdk
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: Trotsky on May 03, 2025, 10:01:50 PM
Cardinal.  No s.

They suck, but they're grammatically correct.
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: stereax on May 04, 2025, 02:52:26 AM
Looks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: stereax on May 04, 2025, 02:54:35 AM
Quote from: stereaxLooks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. (https://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/56/large-cow-bell) So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: stereax on May 04, 2025, 03:00:18 AM
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereaxLooks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. (https://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/56/large-cow-bell) So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.
Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: stereax on May 04, 2025, 03:02:39 AM
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereaxLooks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. (https://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/56/large-cow-bell) So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.
Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.
Could've been something they sold years back too. Like this one. (https://www.cornellstore.com/cornell-dairy-bar-red-cow-bell) I would wager it wasn't a giveaway item at a game because. uh. lol the noise.
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: Jeff Hopkins '82 on May 04, 2025, 03:15:10 AM
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereaxLooks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. (https://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/56/large-cow-bell) So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.
Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.

Cardinal, as in color.  Not bird or religious figure
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: ursusminor on May 04, 2025, 05:42:28 AM
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereaxLooks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. (https://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/56/large-cow-bell) So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.
Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.
Could've been something they sold years back too. Like this one. (https://www.cornellstore.com/cornell-dairy-bar-red-cow-bell) I would wager it wasn't a giveaway item at a game because. uh. lol the noise.
The NCAA has a rule against giving out noisemakers after the RPI Big Red Freakout! game against Brown in 1987.
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: Iceberg on May 04, 2025, 11:04:32 AM
Quote from: ursusminorThe NCAA has a rule against giving out noisemakers after the RPI Big Red Freakout! game against Brown in 1987.

What happened?
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: Trotsky on May 04, 2025, 12:03:32 PM
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereaxLooks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. (https://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/56/large-cow-bell) So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.
Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.

Cardinal, as in color.  Not bird or religious figure
As distinct from Ordinal.
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: ursusminor on May 04, 2025, 12:26:19 PM
Quote from: Iceberg
Quote from: ursusminorThe NCAA has a rule against giving out noisemakers after the RPI Big Red Freakout! game against Brown in 1987.

What happened?

https://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-sports/article/A-brief-history-of-RPI-hockey-s-Big-Red-Freakout-6804980.php

QuoteMany of the giveaways, combined with a well-primed student body, have resulted in frenetic noise levels designed to distract and disrupt the opposition. A lively pep band that sometimes grows to near-orchestral size on Freakout nights adds to the deafening decibel levels.

The scenario finally became so intimidating that the NCAA stepped in after some 3,500 stadium horns helped RPI blow Brown off the ice in 1987. The governing body put a restriction on the type of gift that could be given to fans at hockey games, in effect banning horns and similar noisemakers from Houston Field House and other college rinks.

Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24PhCr8yUVA at about 2:30.

Yearly handouts https://sports-chronicles.com/rpih/pages/special_games

Poor performance on the ice and lack of student interest has done more to decrease the noise level than the NCAA did. Currently, I am hoping that Eric Lang will be able to reverse the trend. He is cleaning house with at the moment only eight returnees and the same amount coming from the transfer portal.
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: ugarte on May 04, 2025, 02:29:06 PM
Quote from: MattSI pick up a small cow bell at a yard sale. They guy thought it was from Stanford and that the "C" on it was for Cardinals. However by the look of it I think the "C" looks more like a Cornell "C".  Does anyone know if CU sold or gave away cow bell at sometime in the past?

Link to picture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bHR7Fr2KURTtqPqGl8KexIqVGx8nJlTm/view?usp=drivesdk
looks very much to be a cornell c but i'm not aware of any noisemaker giveaway. maybe someone at the bookstore who has been there for a while would know?
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: French Rage on May 04, 2025, 03:23:55 PM
I mean the block C has never been a thing for Stanford so why in the hell would he think that?
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: Chris '03 on May 04, 2025, 03:36:17 PM
Quote from: ursusminor
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereaxLooks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. (https://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/56/large-cow-bell) So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.
Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.
Could've been something they sold years back too. Like this one. (https://www.cornellstore.com/cornell-dairy-bar-red-cow-bell) I would wager it wasn't a giveaway item at a game because. uh. lol the noise.
The NCAA has a rule against giving out noisemakers after the RPI Big Red Freakout! game against Brown in 1987.

Didn't some team hand out single thunder sticks at some point? Since you need two for it to be a noise maker...
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: Dafatone on May 04, 2025, 03:49:46 PM
It's not quite a standard Cornell C. The interior of the Cornell C has right angles, and the cowbell C has 45 degree turns around the interior.
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: ursusminor on May 04, 2025, 03:58:06 PM
Quote from: Chris '03
Quote from: ursusminor
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereaxLooks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. (https://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/56/large-cow-bell) So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.
Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.
Could've been something they sold years back too. Like this one. (https://www.cornellstore.com/cornell-dairy-bar-red-cow-bell) I would wager it wasn't a giveaway item at a game because. uh. lol the noise.
The NCAA has a rule against giving out noisemakers after the RPI Big Red Freakout! game against Brown in 1987.

Didn't some team hand out single thunder sticks at some point? Since you need two for it to be a noise maker...

RPI did. See https://sports-chronicles.com/rpih/pages/special_games
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: ugarte on May 04, 2025, 06:09:53 PM
Quote from: Chris '03
Quote from: ursusminor
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereaxLooks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. (https://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/56/large-cow-bell) So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.
Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.
Could've been something they sold years back too. Like this one. (https://www.cornellstore.com/cornell-dairy-bar-red-cow-bell) I would wager it wasn't a giveaway item at a game because. uh. lol the noise.
The NCAA has a rule against giving out noisemakers after the RPI Big Red Freakout! game against Brown in 1987.

Didn't some team hand out single thunder sticks at some point? Since you need two for it to be a noise maker...
You need one more stick or one friend
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: Chris H82 on May 04, 2025, 07:21:26 PM
Quote from: ugarte
Quote from: Chris '03
Quote from: ursusminor
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereaxLooks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. (https://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/56/large-cow-bell) So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.
Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.
Could've been something they sold years back too. Like this one. (https://www.cornellstore.com/cornell-dairy-bar-red-cow-bell) I would wager it wasn't a giveaway item at a game because. uh. lol the noise.
The NCAA has a rule against giving out noisemakers after the RPI Big Red Freakout! game against Brown in 1987.

Didn't some team hand out single thunder sticks at some point? Since you need two for it to be a noise maker...
You need one more stick or one friend

If a thunder stick falls in an empty hockey rink, does it make any noise?
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: Jeff Hopkins '82 on May 04, 2025, 07:24:23 PM
Quote from: Chris H82
Quote from: ugarte
Quote from: Chris '03
Quote from: ursusminor
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereaxLooks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. (https://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/56/large-cow-bell) So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.
Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.
Could've been something they sold years back too. Like this one. (https://www.cornellstore.com/cornell-dairy-bar-red-cow-bell) I would wager it wasn't a giveaway item at a game because. uh. lol the noise.
The NCAA has a rule against giving out noisemakers after the RPI Big Red Freakout! game against Brown in 1987.

Didn't some team hand out single thunder sticks at some point? Since you need two for it to be a noise maker...
You need one more stick or one friend

If a thunder stick falls in an empty hockey rink, does it make any noise?

Hopefully not.
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: MattS on May 05, 2025, 06:32:20 PM
Thanks for those tried to answer my question. I'm just going to go with it being a CU cow bell. Not that it matters but I was curious.
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: stereax on May 06, 2025, 12:19:48 PM
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereaxLooks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. (https://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/56/large-cow-bell) So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.
Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.

Cardinal, as in color.  Not bird or religious figure
Ahh. Copy that!
Title: Re: Cow Bell Question
Post by: jtwcornell91 on May 06, 2025, 03:16:18 PM
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: stereaxLooks very much like this one. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/264842413968)
Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. (https://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/56/large-cow-bell) So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.
Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.

Cardinal, as in color.  Not bird or religious figure
Ahh. Copy that!

When I lived in Bern, Switzerland, I was involved with the local baseball club.  The founder was a guy from Iowa, and so he called the club the Cardinals.  In Switzerland, no one knows about the bird, but there is a brand of beer called Cardinal (https://www.cardinal.ch/).  Apparently the beer people would hassle him from time to time about using their name, and he had to explain the club was named after a North American bird, not a Catholic religious official.