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A home for football and soccer

Sellick Bowl sits east of Hinkle Fieldhouse on the northeast side of campus. The facility serves Butler football and both the men’s and women’s soccer programs.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: Bud and Jackie Sellick Bowl - Facilities - Butler University Athletics

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Two alumni behind the name

Winstan R. “Bud” Sellick graduated in 1947, and Jacqueline Blomberg Sellick in 1944. Their names also identify a stadium hospitality room and the registrar’s suite.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: Butler Bowl Gets a New Name – Stories

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Hink and Butler Blue are different mascots

Hink is the costumed mascot; Butler Blue is the live bulldog. Confusion after the costume’s theft in 2008 helped motivate the separate Hink name.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: Hink—The Inside Story – Stories

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A newspaper helped create the identity

The student newspaper’s 1919 cartoon put Shimmy in the role of Butler’s bulldog. Butler lost the Franklin game, but the Bulldogs name endured.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: Our History | Butler University

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A donated puppy restarted the tradition

Frank and Jeane King, English bulldog breeders from Lizton, Indiana, offered a registered puppy when Butler established its official live mascot program in 2000.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: Our History | Butler University

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The Butler Way

Butler’s campus glossary describes the Butler Way through commitment, continual improvement and putting others first. The phrase applies across the university community.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: Butler Glossary of Terms | Butler University

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The Dawg Pound

The Dawg Pound is Butler athletics’ official student spirit group. The campus glossary connects the group with student sections and game-day support.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: Butler Glossary of Terms | Butler University

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Meet me at the Bulldog

A stone bulldog outside Atherton Union provides a familiar campus meeting place. Butler’s glossary records the phrase used for meeting at that statue.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: Butler Glossary of Terms | Butler University

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Homecoming brings alumni to football

Butler’s glossary describes homecoming as a fall celebration that includes a home football game and tailgating, with alumni and current students taking part.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: Butler Glossary of Terms | Butler University

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Persephone in Holcomb Gardens

A bronze Persephone sculpture by Armand Toussaint became a focal point of the gardens’ mid-century redesign, alongside a reflecting pool. The gardens were rededicated for James Irving Holcomb in 1950.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: History of the Gardens | Butler University

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A newer native-plant landscape

Butler’s gardens history records a September 2024 planting with native species in partnership with the Indiana Native Plant Society, continuing the landscape’s history of redesign.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: History of the Gardens | Butler University

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Back-to-back league titles

The 2013 Bulldogs shared the Pioneer championship with Marist and finished 9–4. It was Butler’s first pair of consecutive PFL titles, following its 2012 championship.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: Butler Compiles Record Football Season - Butler University Athletics

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The first ten-win season milestone

The November 2009 win over Drake made that Butler team the first in school history to reach ten victories. That was a milestone reported at the time, not a current season record claim.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: Butler Captures PFL Championship - Butler University Athletics

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Campus history on canvas

A 2014 university story describes Jon Edwards’s illustrated history for Hinkle Fieldhouse’s Wildman Room: ten canvases spanning campus life, buildings, people and athletics.

Checked 2026-11-01 · Sources: The Illustrated History of Butler University – Stories

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