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title: Football Boogymen
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-football-boogymen-1935/
description: A cartoon of a colonial-costumed figure labelled G.W.U. leaping out of his shoes in fright at a hooting owl labelled Rice.
section: Collection
---

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[![Football Boogymen, 1935 US cartoon: A cartoon of a colonial-costumed figure labelled G.W.U. leaping out of his shoes](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-football-boogymen-1935.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-football-boogymen-1935.jpg)

# Football Boogymen

A cartoon of a colonial-costumed figure labelled G.W.U. leaping out of his shoes in fright at a hooting owl labelled Rice, set against inset panels of other local college teams (Maryland, American University, DePaul, Catholic U., Richmond, Georgetown) frightening or being frightened by one another. The depicted fear is the joke: the cartoon is Halloween-style sports humour, so the technique tag is a weak fit.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
BEWARE!
WE WANT REVENGE!
The Cavaliers
MD.
AW STOP!
YOU'RE
NOT
SCARIN'
ANYBODY!
A·U·
GALLAUDET
DE PAUL
HAW
HAW
!
CATHOLIC
U.
W·H·O·O·!
RICE
G.W.U.
RICHMOND
B-R-R-R-
THAT THING
GIVES ME
TH' CREEPS!
GEORGETOWN
```

[← Proclamation Suppressing Slavery in Tigray (Adwa, 1935)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/de-bono-tigray-slavery-proclamation-1935/) [Three Ethiopian men raise the arm before a banner portrait of Mussolini in a steel helmet, Mekelle, November 1935 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mussolini-portrait-mekelle-1935/)

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