Oggy Oggy Oggy at Cornish rugby matches so this seem another possible origin. The Oxford English Dictionary (2004) entry for "Oggy" states: "Oggy, "noun". "West Country regional" (orig. "Cornwall") and "Navy" slang. A Cornish pasty. Probably an alteration of Cornish "hoggan" pastry, pie (18th century), perhaps cognate with Welsh "chwiogen" muffin, simnel cake (1562), of unknown origin." Members of the Royal Navy claim to have used the chant, or a version of it, since the Second World War. The 'Oggie, Oggie, Oggie' chant was used by supporters of the Royal Navy's Devonport Field Gun Team. (The field gun competition was disbanded in 1999
Athletic nickname iconify, when a school chooses a collection as its athletic nickname, the school typically chooses a related but different mascot that symbolizes that collection. Examples: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Oklahoma Sooners, Purdue Boilermakers, Illinois Fighting Illini A small number of schools choose an archetypical heroic person as their official athletic nickname. This person may be a graduate of the school who is viewed as embodying the school's mission or an archetypal person who is symbolic of the school's area, such as the West Virginia University Mountaineer. In religiously affiliated schools, this person may be a historical person in the religion