Ross came up with "Bruins" for a team nickname, a name for brown bears used in classic folk tales. The team's nickname also went along with the team's original uniform colors of brown and yellow, which came from Adams' grocery chain, First National Stores. Eddie Shore as a member of the Boston Bruins.In the Roman de Renart, Bruin is a bear who is wedged into a honey-filled log by the hero, Reynard the Fox. The name of the character, ultimately from Middle Dutch bruun (“brown”), has come to be an appellation for any bear.During the 1948–49 season, the original form of the "spoked-B" logo, with a small number "24" to the left of the capital B signifying the calendar year in the 20th century in which the Bruins team first played, and a similarly small "49" to the right of the "B", for the then-current season's calendar year in the 20th …

Who started the Bruins : Charles AdamsBoston Bruins / Founder

What does the Bruins logo mean

In it, he refers to the Boston state house as the hub of the solar system. Argument exists over his intent, but the fact remains: the Bruins and the “spoked B” represent their city — The Hub.

What is a bruin : bruin in American English

(ˈbruːɪn) noun. a bear, esp. a European brown bear. [1475–85; ‹ MD bruyn, bruun lit., the brown one, name of the bear in the fable of Reynard the Fox]

Bruin, (from Dutch for "brown"), is an English folk term for brown bear.

The school, which had taken the "University of California at Los Angeles" name that year, became the "Bruins" and has been recognized as such in the years since. The Bruins began to use live bears as mascots in the 1930s, renting animals to appear at all UCLA home football games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.