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Down, Heel, Speak, Shake
Dog Commands
The mascot's costume for this school changes every fall, an anthropomorphic tree with human legs.
Stanford University
Tweeted "Despite the negative press covfefe".
Donald Trump
The nickname for this laced ball is directly derived from the type of material that's inside.
Football
Razer Scooter
Condense, Freeze, Melt, Vaporize
Changes in States of Matter
This school won the first ever national football championship in 1869, however it was the only intercollegiate game played that year.
Rutgers
Tweeted "Important change: your likes are now private" just days after being exposed for liking NSFW content on twitter.
Elon Musk
A real slang term for shooting this type of ball is "stroking it."
Basketball
As a reward, many elementary school classes would host this type of alliterative festivity based around a small fraction of food.
Pizza Party
Blanket, Sham, Sheet, Throw
Bedding
Alphabetically, the first Ivy League school.
Brown University
Tweeted "Yes they can control the weather. It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can't be done."
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
In the MLB, the surface of the ball needs to be rubbed with mud from this U.S. state.
New Jersey
Specially molded rubber bracelets that were banned in many schools because they would be traded.
Silly Bandz
Bridge, Deck, Hatch, Keel
Parts of a Ship
In the 2016 March Madness tournament, this small school upset the University of Virginia, being the only 15 seed to upset a 2 seed in the tournament.
UMBC
Tweeted "Hope Greta and her friends can swim!" referencing a waterborne expedition activist Greta Thunberg took to Palestine.
Senator Lindsay Graham
Oblong and textured, the ball in this sport must be pressed against the ground to score.
Rugby
Game where people try to guess who tagged their thumb while their head was on the desk. Some people would cheat by memorizing shoes.
Heads down thumbs up / 7up
Bottle, Graduate, Mushroom, Salary
Things that are "Capped"
The largest university in the United States, boasting over 100k students with an acceptance rate of 90%.
Arizona State University
Elon Musk
This ball, resembling a baseball, is used in the Gaelic sport of hurling.
Sliotar
Many people didn't know that the "handles" on these four-wheeled gymnasium devices were actually finger guards.
Floor Scooters/Gym Scooters