I take back my comments earlier about nervousness over how the Irish would play today. We're almost halfway through the fourth quarter and this has been a lovely football game! We've gotten some help from bad luck on the part of the Nittany Lions (what the heck is "Nittany" anyway?), but our team looked awesome! Hooray! Maybe this season really will be fun.
I wish I had one of those green towel things that Coach Weiss gave out at this game. Cool.
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Because I had no idea, I went to the Penn State website for the answer:
The word "Nittany" seems to have been derived from a Native American term meaning "single mountain." (Since a number of Algonquian-speaking tribes inhabited central Pennsylvania, the term can’t be traced to one single group.) These inhabitants applied this description to the mountain that separates Penns Valley and Nittany Valley, overlooking what is today the community of State College and Penn State’s University Park campus.
Congrats on the Irish win!
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