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  1. Feb 13, 2024 · UNC fell to UVA 31-27. For the past 100 years, a live Dorset Horn Sheep has stood on the sidelines of UNC football games at Kenan Memorial Stadium bearing the name Rameses — its horns painted ...

  2. This year marks 100 years of Rameses as a Live Animal mascot program. The origin of a ram as North Carolina’s mascot dates back to 1924. In 1922, the star fullback, Jack Merritt, was given the nickname “the battering ram” for his performance on the field, as well as for an initiation ritual he created for male freshman students.

  3. Feb 15, 2024 · Posted Feb 15, 2024. For the past 100 years, a live Dorset Horn Sheep has stood on the sidelines of UNC football games at Kenan Memorial Stadium bearing the name Rameses, its horns painted Carolina blue. The tradition began in 1924 when UNC cheerleader Vic Huggins suggested that the Tar Heels needed a live mascot to compete with other schools ...

  4. Browse 280 unc mascot rameses photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. North Carolina Tar Heels mascot Rameses during the game between the St. John's Red Storm and the North Carolina Tar Heels in First Round of the NCAA...

  5. Feb 9, 2021 · Rameses retired last fall. He lived the rest of his days on Hogan’s Magnolia View Farm just north of Carrboro. The Hogan family has been the caretaker of Tar Heel mascots for generations.

  6. Feb 9, 2021 · His name was Rameses XXI. And he had spent nine years representing the university at games with his horns painted Carolina blue. Don Basnight, one of the ram’s handlers, told the newspaper that the ram was a “really beautiful physical specimen, and a very good mascot, and a very good pet.”

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  8. Rameses is the ram mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels.Three versions of Rameses appear at UNC sporting events. One is a member of the UNC cheerleading team in an anthropomorphic ram costume; the second is also an anthropomorphic ram costume, and the third is a live Horned Dorset Sheep named Rameses who attends Carolina football games with his horns painted Carolina Blue.