Statue designed to send Pack into a 'Fury'
Players can touch icon entering field
Published: Sat, Aug. 09, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Sat, Aug. 09, 2008 04:34AM
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closeClemson has Howard's Rock.
Maryland has Testudo, a bronze terrapin.
Now N.C. State has an icon for football players to touch as they run out of the tunnel and onto the field.
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About two weeks ago, the school placed a new bronze statue of a snarling wolf at the tunnel entrance to Carter-Finley Stadium.
"That's a new addition to the team, I guess," defensive end Willie Young said.
The statue weighs 400 pounds, and the school plans to pay for it with a $100,000 naming rights opportunity being sold by the Wolfpack Club. The statue was made by Dick Idol, the N.C. State alumnus who also constructed the massive, six-wolf sculpture at the front of the Murphy Center football office complex.
Coach Tom O'Brien said that when he was at Boston College, he had an eagle installed to start a tradition of touching something before going onto the field.
O'Brien has named the wolf "Fury."
"We've got a great mascot," O'Brien said. "... We're working toward making the entrance a little better."
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