
08/23/2025
Very interesting. Thank you McCurtain County Historical Society.
Pictured is the Broken Bow Scouts baseball team, 1917-18. Prior to 1924, the Broken Bow School mascot was the Scout. In 1924, the student body submitted nominations for a new mascot. Billy Morgan, Broken Bow football player submitted the idea of the Broken Bow Savage. When the student body voted, Billy's proposal was chosen and has stuck for the last 101 years. The following years, the Idabel Wildcats changed their mascot officially to the Idabel Tushka. The word, "Tushka" means warrior in the Choctaw language and the mascot quickly became more commonly referred to as the Idabel Warriors. However, the original form of the mascot was intended to pay homage to the Choctaw heritage of the area.
This great photo comes to us courtesy of the Broken Bow Scout yearbook, published in 1918.