<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> http://www.utsports.com/trads/tenn-trads.html </Td> </Tr> <P> Smokey is the mascot of the University of Tennessee sports teams . These teams, named "The Volunteers" and nicknamed "the Vols", use both a live and a costumed version of Smokey . </P> <P> There is an actual Bluetick Coonhound mascot, Smokey X, who leads the Vols on the field for football games . The Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity cares for the hound on the University of Tennessee campus . There is also a costumed mascot that appears at every Vols game and has won several mascot championships . </P> <P> In 1953, the University of Tennessee Pep Club held a contest to select a coonhound, a breed native to Tennessee, to serve as the school's live mascot . Announcements of the contest in local newspapers read, "This can't be an ordinary hound . He must be a' Houn' Dog' in the best sense of the word ." </P>

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