Salisbury, Maryland: Sammy the Seagull
Seven-foot-tall statue of Salisbury University's sweater-clad cartoon mascot bird.
Salisbury University
- Address:
- 1101 Camden Ave., Salisbury, MD
- Directions:
- Salisbury University. Outside the Henson Science Hall, across from Perdue Hall, near the Maggs Physical Activities Center.
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Visitors to Salisbury University may find themselves face-to-face with a seven-foot-tall fiberglass anthropomorphic seagull. He is Sammy, the university mascot, who oversees a triangular patch of sidewalk outside the school's Henson Science Hall that students have come to call Sammy's Angle. A costumed version of Sammy makes appearances at SU athletics games and special events.
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The University was previously Salisbury State College, and its sports teams were the Gulls, but when people said "SSC Gulls" it sounded like "seagulls," and the name stuck.