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Originally Posted by rocketphish
TIL. Thank you for that. I grew up in Ottawa and I had no idea that's what it stood for. I had always assumed it had something to do with the Governor General (GG).
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HaHa--it is not much of a stretch to figure that GG was short for Garnet and Grey.
Here is some more trivia. The story I heard was that a uOttawa alumus became a graphic designer. He designed the logo of a racehorse head, with fiery mane, and the letters GG emblazoned on it. He then added the word " Gee-Gee" beneath it.
The word "geegee" is long in the public domain and can not be copyrighted. The hyphen was added to make the spelling unique and the alumnus was able to copyright the whole design. He then donated the copyright to the university as a gift. uOttawa adopted the design as the official logo and name of its sports teams sometime in the early 1970's.
Before that there was not an official logo. However, one often saw a horseshoe with the letters GG in the center of it on GG(GeeGee) uniforms.
A while ago the "1881 Gee-Gee Football Alumni Association" was formed.1881 for short, as that was the year the first uOttawa football team took to the field.
They have a logo that combines the old and the new.