The official UT mascot of all teams is Smokey, a Tennessee bluetick hound dog, selected in 1953. From 1945 to 1947, Dipper, a cocker spaniel belonging to wingback W. S. “Monk” Fowler, joined the football VOLS on the bench and performed mascot duties, decked out in orange and white. He had a wonderful trick of clapping his ears—and the team spent considerable effort trying to teach him to clap when UT scored. Like Fowler, Dipper was a Navy veteran—having ridden along with his master in Navy Air Corps flights. While Dipper was Dipper at home, he bore the name Volunteer while discharging his duties as mascot on the football field. In 1965 athletes in Gibbs Hall adopted a small white dog that they called Rabies (when the dog first appeared, someone said it probably had rabies or something), which served as the unofficial mascot of UT athletes.