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Article: Original Bucky Badger stormed football field in 1949
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Original Bucky Badger stormed football field in 1949
Associated Press
Wednesday, March 22, 2000
Plymouth -- William Sagal, the first University of Wisconsin
student to wear the oversized head of mascot Bucky Badger, has died
at the age of 73.
Sagal died at his home Monday. There was no immediate word on the
cause of death.
Sagal's vehicle sported the license plate "Bucky 1," and his
collection of Bucky Badger memorabilia filled his home.
Even Gov. Tommy G. Thompson backed off the idea of using "Bucky 1"
as the moniker on the state airplane after a staff member learned
that Sagal had claimed the name.
As documented in a 1981 book, "The Bucky Badger Story" by
Gwendolyn Schultz, Sagal brought ...