Former EMU logo featuring Native American mascot will briefly reappear on band uniforms
The Hurons logo, used from 1929 to 1991, and another former block M logo that honors the Normalites – when the university was known as Michigan State Normal School – are embroidered inside new band uniforms that will be worn at Saturday’s football home opener.read more
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