ISU Athletics

• Men's Sports
• Basketball
• Cross Country
• Football
• Tennis
• Track and Field

• Women's Sports
• Basketball
• Cross Country
• Golf
• Soccer
• Softball
• Tennis
• Track and Field
• Volleyball

Why the Bengals?
The Bengal mascot has a long and storied tradition at Idaho State. When ISU was known as the Idaho Technical Institute, athletes were dubbed the "Bantams", but since neither their size or behavior conformed with the name, it was never very popular. In 1921, Ralph H. Hutchinson became Director of Physical Education and Athletics. A graduate of Princeton, Hutchinson immediately organized an "I" Club, and the group's members adopted Princeton's Bengal Tiger as its mascot. In 1931, the tiger clawed The Idaho Techniad off the school newspaper's masthead, and replaced it with The Idaho Bengal. In Merrill Beal's 1952 publication History of Idaho State College, he noted of the Bengal Tiger: ". . . a creature that has never been found hereabouts, living or dead."