Louisiana Tech University is a public research university in Ruston, Louisiana. It is part of the University of Louisiana System and classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".
Ruston is a small city and the parish seat of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is the largest city in the Eastern Ark-La-Tex region. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 21,859, reflecting an increase of 6.4 percent from the count of 20,546 counted in the 2000 Census. Ruston is near the eastern border of the Ark-La-Tex region and is the home of Louisiana Tech University. Its economy is therefore based on its college population. Ruston hosts the annual Peach Festival.
Uga is the official live mascot of the University of Georgia Bulldogs. Since Uga I's introduction in 1956, every Uga has been owned by the Sonny Seiler family of Savannah, Georgia.
Handsome Dan is a bulldog who serves as the mascot of Yale University's sports teams. In addition to a person wearing a costume, the position is filled by an actual bulldog, the honor being transferred to another upon death or retirement.
Robert Scott "Scotty" Robertson III was an American basketball coach. He was the first coach for the New Orleans Jazz, and he later coached the Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Pistons. He also has a stint as assistant coach for the Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs, Phoenix Suns, and the Miami Heat.
Thomas Allen Spinks, known as Tommy Spinks, was an American football wide receiver. He played college football for the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.
The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team represent Louisiana Tech University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. After 12 seasons in the Western Athletic Conference, Louisiana Tech began competing as a member of Conference USA in 2013. Since 1968, the Bulldogs have played their home games at Joe Aillet Stadium. Since its first season in 1901, Louisiana Tech has compiled an all-time record of 636 wins, 479 losses, and 39 ties. In 118 football seasons, the Bulldogs have won 3 Division II national championships, won 25 conference championships, and played in 28 postseason games, including 13 major college bowl games. Sonny Cumbie will take over as head coach for the 2022 season.
Timeout is the official mascot at the Fresno State Bulldogs in Fresno, California, United States.
Jack the Bulldog is the official mascot of the Georgetown University Hoyas athletic teams. The school has employed at least eight live Bulldogs as mascots, and counts seven named Jack since 1962, when the name first came into use, including three who are still living. The current incarnation of Jack, who will be taking over from his predecessor during the 2019–20 academic year, is an English Bulldog born in 2019 whose full name is John F. Carroll. Recent bulldogs have come from the Georgetown alumni family of Janice and Marcus Hochstetler.
The traditions of Louisiana Tech University are key aspects to the culture and student life at Louisiana Tech University. The earliest traditions started shortly after the university's founding in the 1890s while other traditions have been introduced more recently. The most notable visible tradition among current students and university alumni is the Lady of the Mist statue and fountain that was constructed in the middle of the Quadrangle in 1938.
The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs basketball program, nicknamed the Dunkin' Dogs, represents intercollegiate men's basketball at Louisiana Tech University. The program competes in Conference USA in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and plays home games at the Thomas Assembly Center in Ruston, Louisiana. Talvin Hester is in his first season as the Bulldogs' head coach.
Albert Lawrence Williams Jr., known as A. L. Williams, is the retired former head football coach for the Northwestern State Demons and the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.
The 1929 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute—now known as Louisiana Tech University—as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1929 college football season. Led Tod Rockwell in his second and final year as head coach, Louisiana Tech compiled an overall record of 3–4–3. The team's captain was Gale Burham.
The 1930 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1930 college football season. In their first year under head coach George Bohler, the team compiled a 3–6 record.
The 1933 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Polytechnic Institute of University of Louisiana as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1933 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach George Bohler, the team compiled a 1–7 record.
The 1936 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1936 college football season. In their third year under head coach Eddie McLane, the team compiled a 6–2–1 record.
Bully is the official mascot of the Mississippi State University Bulldogs in Starkville, Mississippi, and the name is given to both the costumed mascot and the live bulldog that appears at State games. The live mascot Bully is an American Kennel Club registered English Bulldog, and each dog is given the inherited title of "Bully". The name "Bully" is traditionally considered a title and not the official name of the specific dog that holds it.
The Louisiana Tech–Louisiana–Monroe football rivalry is a former American college football rivalry between the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs and the Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks. The two schools are located 35 miles apart from each other on I-20 in North Louisiana. The two teams have met 43 times on the football field, with Louisiana Tech currently holding a 29–14 lead in the all-time series. The game ended in 2000, following the Bulldogs' transition to the Western Athletic Conference.
Clarence Eugene Faulk, Jr., was an American journalist who published from 1931 to 1962 the Ruston Daily Leader, the daily newspaper in Ruston in north Louisiana. Through the ownership of KRUS-AM radio, Faulk was a broadcaster. He was also engaged in real estate and a pioneer of self-storage warehousing, a business that he did not launch until after he was seventy years of age.
The Ruston Daily Leader is the daily newspaper in Ruston in Lincoln Parish in North Louisiana. The Daily Leader is published Sunday morning and Monday through Friday afternoons. The circulation in 2010 was 5,418, but the paper claimed a readership of some 15,000. It is the official journal of the Lincoln Parish School Board, the parish government, sheriff's department, and most municipalities in the coverage area.
