Pounce is usually represented as a stylized panther with blue fur, sharp white teeth with protruding canines, and black whiskers.

Like many mascots, Pounce communicates via hand gestures and sign language, rather than speech.

In 1947, the school would, for no apparent reason, change the athletics teams' names to the Ramblers.

Both the school's student newspaper, the Signal, and the yearbook, The Cauldron, identified the mascot as being played by Jay Black who would later become a professor at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

This remained the university's mascot with slight variations (including more ferocious facial gestures) up until 2009.