02/12/2010
“Gentleman Saxons Win Thriller over Fisher.” That headline seems odd, doesn’t it? Not the beating of Fisher, of course, but the use of the phrase “Gentleman Saxons.” Just “Saxons” should suffice. If you are referring to one of our women’s teams, though, “Saxons” does not cut it. We call our female athletes “Lady Saxons,” apparently so no one will confuse them with the real “Saxons”—our male athletes. We are not alone in doing this, incidentally. Women’s teams at Winston Salem State are the Lady Rams. Johnson C. Smith University fields the Lady Bull’s.
