From the what is in a name department, let’s check out the nicknames in the New England Small College Athletic Conference.
We will start with the Jeffs of Amherst College, followed by the Hamilton College Continentals, the Trinity College Bantams, the Tufts College Jumbos — complete with an elephant for a mascot.
Saving the best for last: The Williams College Ephs.
These make the NESCAC’s Connecticut College Camels seem like a regular name.
The Jeffs as in the Lord Jeffs, as in Col. Lord Jeffrey Amherst for whom the town of Amherst MA was named? (The "h" is silent: am-erst).
The Ephs as in Ephram Williams whose will created a free college on land from his estate. The mascot however is a purple cow named Ephie, because cows, even purple ones, are female.