Have you ever wondered why we call that little leather guy “Bruin, Jr.”?

The answer’s pretty exciting: A professor used to have a bear in Hess Creek Canyon. So that would be the first “Bruin,” making the guy we fight over now, “Bruin, Jr.”

Check it out: http://www.georgefox.edu/journalonline/spring08/bruinbeginnings.html

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