Sunny Boy (mascot)

Sunny Boy
Sunny Boy
	Sunny Boy figure at the Husky Hall of Fame at Hec Edmundson Pavilion
Team	Sun Dodgers
University	University of Washington
Conference	Pacific Coast Conference
Origin of name	Sun Dodger
First seen	1920
Related mascot(s)	Dubs, Harry the Husky

Last updated February 09, 2025

Sunny Boy is a wooden statue of an undergraduate that served as the mascot of the University of Washington Sun Dodgers.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

↑ "New Mascot for Washington "Sunny" Adopted by Athletes". The Seattle Times . May 30, 1920. p. 15. Yale has its Bulldog; Princeton, its Tiger; California its Golden Bear; and Washington State College, its Cougar. Now the University of Washington has its 'Sunny', who becomes mascot to all the Purple and Gold athletic teams, now known as 'Sun Dodgers'.
↑ "Old Mascot of Washington U., Found after 23 Years in South Bend Yard". The South Bend Tribune . November 23, 1948. A 'kidnaping' that occurred 23 years ago in Seattle, Wash., has been solved in South Bend and all has been forgiven. How Sunny Boy happened to turn up in South Bend is a puzzling story and there are still some missing links.
↑ Kugiya, Hugo (June 7, 1994). "Cloud Of Mystery Shades Sunny Boy". The Seattle Times . 'Sunny Boy,' the 74-year-old wooden statue the University of Washington called its mascot for three years, forgotten for the better part of the century, is missing.
↑ Marmor, Jon (September 1, 1997). "UW's first mascot was a hunk of wood that got around". Columns . Sunny Boy, a 3 1/2-foot, gold-painted wooden statue. And despite being a 70-pound still object, he sure got around. A sculptured replica of the happy-faced character Sunny, who appeared in the University's lusty humor magazine Sun Dodger, in 1919, Sunny Boy was whittled into being by Ballard artist Maurice S. Holcomb to be a symbol of "Joe College," dressed in a bow tie, holding books under one arm and a football under the other. Behind him are the four columns originally part of the first University building.

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[SeattleTimes1920-1] "New Mascot for Washington "Sunny" Adopted by Athletes". The Seattle Times . May 30, 1920. p. 15. Yale has its Bulldog; Princeton, its Tiger; California its Golden Bear; and Washington State College, its Cougar. Now the University of Washington has its 'Sunny', who becomes mascot to all the Purple and Gold athletic teams, now known as 'Sun Dodgers'.

[SouthBendTribune1948-2] "Old Mascot of Washington U., Found after 23 Years in South Bend Yard". The South Bend Tribune . November 23, 1948. A 'kidnaping' that occurred 23 years ago in Seattle, Wash., has been solved in South Bend and all has been forgiven. How Sunny Boy happened to turn up in South Bend is a puzzling story and there are still some missing links.

[SeattleTimes1994-3] Kugiya, Hugo (June 7, 1994). "Cloud Of Mystery Shades Sunny Boy". The Seattle Times . 'Sunny Boy,' the 74-year-old wooden statue the University of Washington called its mascot for three years, forgotten for the better part of the century, is missing.

[Columns1997-4] Marmor, Jon (September 1, 1997). "UW's first mascot was a hunk of wood that got around". Columns . Sunny Boy, a 3 1/2-foot, gold-painted wooden statue. And despite being a 70-pound still object, he sure got around. A sculptured replica of the happy-faced character Sunny, who appeared in the University's lusty humor magazine Sun Dodger, in 1919, Sunny Boy was whittled into being by Ballard artist Maurice S. Holcomb to be a symbol of "Joe College," dressed in a bow tie, holding books under one arm and a football under the other. Behind him are the four columns originally part of the first University building.

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