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photographer unknown
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Acquisition Number:
Medium: Photograph
Sergeant Major Jiggs Collection,
Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division
In early 1922 at Brigadier General Smedley Butler's urging, the Marine Corps football team based at Quantico, Virginia, acquired a mascot. The English bulldog, renamed Mr. Jiggs, was the Marine Corps' mascot until his death in 1927, having obtained the rank of sergeant major. He was the first of a long line of Marine Corps bulldog mascots.
Jiggs II came on board in 1925, the gift of boxing champion and former Marine Gene Tunney. Jiggs was described as ferocious looking but with
a mild manner and gentle disposition, despite the rumor that he chased a stenographer down the hallway of the State, War, and Navy Building. And there was the time he might have nipped the ice delivery man.
Jiggs II died in 1937, having obtained the rank of sergeant major.
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