Editing University of Puget Sound (section)

====The Hatchet====
The [[Hatchet]] is the official symbol of sports teams at the University of Puget Sound. It was first discovered in 1906 when students were digging up a barn at the old campus. They decided to carve their class year into it. This became a tradition of sorts, as the seniors would hand the hatchet to the juniors on senior recognition day. This turned into a competition where each class would try to possess the hatchet for as long as possible. It disappeared for 15 years until it was anonymously mailed to former President R. Franklin Thompson. Thompson displayed it in a trophy case in Jones Hall, where it mysteriously disappeared again, only to resurface at a [[homecoming]] game in 1988. In 1998, the hatchet's return was negotiated through an intermediary, and it was permanently displayed in a display case in the Wheelock Student Center. It was stolen in 1999 during a false fire alarm in one of the dormitories.<ref>ASUPS, [http://asups.ups.edu/welcome/history/default.aspx The Tradition of the Puget Sound Hatchet]</ref>

On September 30, 2006 (homecoming) a student rappelled into the football field at halftime, brandishing "the hatchet". It was later revealed by the student newspaper ''The Trail'' that this hatchet is a replica of the actual hatchet, commissioned by the former student government administration without the knowledge of the student senate. The replica hatchet was painstakingly carved to look exactly like the original, using over 150 photos as a guide.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}}

The original hatchet was finally returned to President Ronald Thomas in 2008 by two anonymous alumni and was displayed at Homecoming.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pugetsound.edu/about/offices-services/office-of-communications/arches/archive/back-issues/arches-archive/winter-2009/the-hatchet-men/ |title=The hatchet men |author=Ron Thomas |publisher=University of Puget Sound |date=Winter 2009}}</ref>