Big Red

Big Red has several meanings:

Sports

• Affectionate name of the greatest racehorse ever, Man O' War
• Also, the names of racehorses Phar Lap, Secretariat and Bonecrusher
• The nickname of the sports teams of Cornell University and Denison University, and a secondary nickname for the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Indiana University Bloomington. Some fans of University of Wisconsin have tried to add ths name to UW, but it has not caught on.
• The mascot of the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers and of the National Football League's Arizona Cardinals.
• The nickname of the Triple Crown winning racehorse Secretariat

Works

• Big Red, an album by folk artist Hugh Blumenfeld.
• Big Red, a non-fiction book about the author, Douglas C. Waller's trip on deployment with the crew of the USS Nebraska
• Big Red, a book by Jim Kjelgaard, about a boy and his Irish Setter, later made into a 1962 Walt Disney film
• Clifford the Big Red Dog, a children's book.

Food and drink

• Big Red, a cinnamon-flavoured gum made by Wrigley's
• Big Red, a brand of strawberry bubblegum-flavored cream soda manufactured by a Texas company of the same name, primarily marketed in the Southern United States
• A cocktail made from Irish Cream and cinnamon schnapps.

Other

• A common term for the Red Kangaroo.
• The largest sand dune in the Simpson Desert, central Australia.
• The Holland Harbor Lighthouse, also known as Big Red, located in Ottawa County, Michigan at the entrance of a channel connecting Lake Michigan with Lake Macatawa
• The Big Red One refers to the First Infantry Division of the United States Army.
  • The Big Red One is a 1980 movie about the same during World War II.