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 ====== Bleuteaux 1984-1991 ====== ====== Bleuteaux 1984-1991 ======
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 ===== History ===== ===== History =====
-Marquette has both "Bleuteaux" and "Blueteaux" as spelling for the creature. Even the Marquette Tribune was never able to select a specific spelling. Bleuteaux was a blue "muppet like creature." He served as Marquette's official mascot from 1984-1991. He was often seen wearing a blue and gold beret, and a simple Marquette basketball jersey, but that changed from season to season and from sport to sport. +{{ nickname:blueteaux.jpg?250|}}Marquette has both "Bleuteaux" and "Blueteaux" as spelling for the creature. Even the Marquette Tribune was never able to select a specific spelling. Bleuteaux was a blue "muppet like creature." He served as Marquette's official mascot from 1984-1991. He was often seen wearing a blue and gold beret, and a simple Marquette basketball jersey, but that changed depending on the year and the sport. 
  
-Originally Bleuteaux was to be known as the “Big Blue,” but due to copyright restrictions, thanks to the University of Kentucky whose mascot was also known as Big Blue, the nickname was not viable. In 1984 after an intense competition where 887 votes were cast Bleuteaux, known as Big Blue at the time, was selected as the winner of the mascot selection. Big Blue received 350 votes out of 887. The closest competition was the Yak, who finished with 314 votes. Sam Dunk and the MU Cow followed with 168 and 55 votes, respectively. +Originally Bleuteaux was to be known as the “Big Blue,” but due to copyright restrictions, thanks to the University of Kentucky whose mascot was also known as Big Blue, the nickname was not viable.  
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 +In 1984 after an intense competition where 887 votes were cast Bleuteaux, known as Big Blue at the time, was selected as the winner of the mascot selection. Big Blue received 350 out of 887 total votes. The closest competition was the Yak, who finished with 314 votes. Sam Dunk and the MU Cow followed with 168 and 55 votes, respectively. 
  
 According to old issues of the Marquette Tribune Bleuteaux //"Big Blue' originally would have had an oversized body with blue fur, a short trunk and large silly eyes. He would wear a Marquette shirt and bright yellow high-top sneakers. Springing from his head would be antennae with small basketballs."//  According to old issues of the Marquette Tribune Bleuteaux //"Big Blue' originally would have had an oversized body with blue fur, a short trunk and large silly eyes. He would wear a Marquette shirt and bright yellow high-top sneakers. Springing from his head would be antennae with small basketballs."// 
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 In the 1985-86 National Mascot Competition Bleuteaux, Joe "Woodchip" Bachna finished in the top ten. The University of South Carolina's Gamecock finished first. In the 1985-86 National Mascot Competition Bleuteaux, Joe "Woodchip" Bachna finished in the top ten. The University of South Carolina's Gamecock finished first.
  
-By 1991 it was clear that Bleuteaux would no longer remain the mascot of Marquette University. The next mascot would not be named until after naming/mascot controversies that would lead to Marquette's selection of the Goldent Eagles. +By 1990 it was clear that Bleuteaux would no longer remain the mascot of Marquette University. The next mascot would not be named until after naming/mascot controversies that would lead to Marquette's selection of the Goldent Eagles. 
  
 ===== Criticism ===== ===== Criticism =====
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 Steven Solomon, Engineering '86 //"I think that it is very interesting that the university spends so much time arguing back and forth over a mascot when there are so many other important topics that should be more important to the students than whether the name, color, and form of a mascot they don't back very much anyway."// Steven Solomon, Engineering '86 //"I think that it is very interesting that the university spends so much time arguing back and forth over a mascot when there are so many other important topics that should be more important to the students than whether the name, color, and form of a mascot they don't back very much anyway."//
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 ===== Photos ===== ===== Photos =====
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 +Photographs courtesy of Marquette University Libraries. 
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