Nickname
The nickname "Tigres", which means "Tigers", originates from the University's sporting history. The first sports team from the UANL was an American Football team called "Cachorros" (or cubs). In 1947 they won a key match against the "Black Cats", an undefeated side, and a journalist from El Norte wrote that the team had played less like cubs and more like Tigers, and since then teams from the University have had the nickname.
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“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)