Notre Dame Leprechaun Desktop Sculpture

                ICON Artworks is proud to pay tribute to the beloved Notre Dame University mascot with our officially licensed LEPRECHAUN Desktop Sculpture!   A perfect gift for students, alumni, faculty, and fans alike!  GO FIGHTING IRISH!  The history of Notre Dame’s mascot sounds more like the beginning of a small zoo than that of a beloved sports icon. While the famous leprechaun logo was drawn in 1964 during Ara Parseghian’s first year of coaching, before this, a bulldog, canary, goat and several terriers each served as the face of Notre Dame. “With this aggregation of animals, the kangaroo hurdling hedge fences, the goat bucking the line and the dogs doing tricks on the side- lines, Notre Dame should present a terrifying appearance to any antagonist,” a Sept. 22, 1900 South Bend Tribune article read. In 1924, Notre Dame began heralding terriers as their team’s mascots. Clashmore Mike I, the most well-known of the bunch impressed the crowd with sideline gymnastics. Clashmore was