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The kept animal who carries a city's name in this county is a dog across the river, and his line is a dynasty. Notre Dame's Irish terriers served as the football team's mascots for four decades. The line opens in January 1924, when the Notre Dame Alumni Club of Toledo presented coach Knute Rockne with an Irish terrier the students named Tipperary Terrence in a campus contest; Terry was hit by a car following students on Niles Road in May 1924 and died days later, and the Toledo club replaced him with Tipperary Terrence II in time for the 1924 Army game. Charles Otis presented Brick Top Shaun Rhue at the Notre Dame–Navy game in Cleveland on 19 November 1932 — the dog Rockne, by the Scholastic's telling, could never quite name, so they called him Mike. The name became the throne: Clashmore Mike, donated by the Chicago breeder William J. Butler, became the official mascot in 1935, kept his own column in the football programs, performed his sideline gymnastics for a decade, fought ceremonial battles with the Pitt panther, the Army mule and the Navy goat, and died in September 1945 — buried in Notre Dame Stadium. Clashmore Mike II, born Shannon Invader, succeeded and ran away in 1948; James McGarraghy of Chicago presented Shannon View Mike; the line muddies thereafter, as the University Archives itself cautions — the 1952 Scholastic Football Review names Shannon View Mike and Pat, the 1953 review calls the dog Clashmore Mike III — and the last Mike stood on the cover of the 1963 football Dope Book beside coach Hugh Devore. The student leprechaun had appeared alongside the dog from 1960, and in 1965 the university adopted the Leprechaun as its official mascot; the terrier's stone carving watches from Alumni Hall, whose men took the dawg as their own. The Archives' record is printed here with its own warning attached: the history of the Irish terriers "contains a number of conflicting accounts," and the Scholastic's 1930 dating of the official terrier differs from the Archives' 1935 — both stand. The Mishawaka test runs against that full line and returns empty. No kept or mascot animal carries this city's name in the record: Bethel's Pilots and Mishawaka High's Cavemen are names without animals — no dog, horse or bird was ever kept, buried or carved for them in anything this build has reached — and the city's kept-animal record is the zoo test's negative and the fair animals of their own sections. The famous mascot animal of St. Joseph County is Notre Dame's, as the famous college is; Mishawaka's animals are the wild and working ones of the local-animals section, and its kennel, at pointer size, is empty by evidence, not by oversight.