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Crusader
Until 1927 Wheaton College sports teams did not have an official name. It was this way until a sports editor for the Record referred to the football team as the “Crusaders” in February of 1927. The very next week the football team was again called the Crusaders |
and the name stuck. It seems that there is no official naming of the |
sports teams the Crusaders, only that the name caught on quickly, and that |
by 1931 the Tower was calling the sports teams the Crusaders. The name and mascot |
were used for 73 years until 2000 when it was announced that Wheaton |
would no longer use them out of a desire to avoided symbols that did |
not reflect the |
College’s Christian values and goals. |