<p>The AP covered this:
<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Yale-Bulldog.html?[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Yale-Bulldog.html?</a></p>
<p>my favorite quote:</p>
<p>Previous Handsome Dans have created quite a legacy: One inspired a Cole Porter song. Another graced the cover of Sports Illustrated. Nearly all have hobnobbed with politicians. One performed for President George H.W. Bush, a Yale alum, playing dead at the question, ‘‘Would you rather go to Harvard or die?’’</p>
<p>Mugsy outperformed nine other would-be mascots Tuesday in a competition that had the dogs strut in front of a blaring band, tackle a stuffed Princeton tiger, and maul a Harvard crimson blanket.</p>
<p>Some were ruled too chubby. Others too timid. A panel of judges found Mugsy athletic enough to carry one of the most storied monikers in sports.</p>
<p>‘‘It’s folklore. It’s pride. It’s tradition,’’ said Roy E. Yarbrough, a school mascot historian in Pennsylvania. '‘Yale has a leg up on everybody.’"</p>
<p>I kinda chuckled at the thought of some sort of deranged dog show where the contestants are judged on how ferociously they tear apart a stuffed cantab. haha</p>