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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

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and the name stuck. It seems that there is no official naming of the

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sports teams the Crusaders, only that the name caught on quickly, and that

by1931

by 1931 the Tower was calling the sports teams the Crusaders. The name and mascot

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were used for 73 years until 2000 when it was announced that Wheaton

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would no longer use them out of a desire to avoided symbols that did

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not reflect the

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College’s Christian values and goals.