# What's the name of your High School Football team? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141 "2002-07-21T23:10:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/21 "2002-07-22T01:18:04Z")
Rams. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/22 "2002-07-22T01:20:42Z")
I grew up in Anderson, IN. The town was named for Kikthewenund, whom the white settlers called Chief Anderson. The team was the Indians. Our rivals in Muncie were named for another piece of history. When Indiana was being settled, bear hunters set out to wipe out the bears, which they thought were dangerous to one and all. These guys used bear dogs to find and corner the bears. The bears were pretty hard on the dogs, and soon there was a shortage of dogs. Brave cats were pressed into service, and the **Muncie Central Bearcats** are named in their honor. The Bearcats usually kicked our Andersonian butts. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Kahuna_Burger)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/23 "2002-07-22T01:21:09Z")
Warriors class of ‘02 unless those bleedin’ hearts change it to something more PC. Our cross-town rivals are the Chieftains. In college I get to be a Screaming Eagle. ---
**Author:** ![VDarlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e56c9b/32.png) [@VDarlin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VDarlin)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/24 "2002-07-22T01:25:32Z")
The HS that I went to my freshman through junior year had the **Patriots** , then the school I went to my senior year, were the **Eagles** , also referred to as the **Golden Eagles** , as our colors were blue and gold(yellow). ~V ---
**Author:** ![friggae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/45deac/32.png) [@friggae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friggae)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/25 "2002-07-22T01:28:03Z")
We were the Richard Montgomery Rockets. Kind of a weird mascot, especially since we had a very phallic 8 foot statue in the front of the school. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/26 "2002-07-22T01:40:17Z")
SCORPIONS C! CHS! BLUE! BLUE AND WHITE! CAMARILLO! SCORPIONS! LET’S FIGHT! ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/27 "2002-07-22T01:43:06Z")
Beverly High School Panthers! Our rivals were the Salem Witches. Really. “Burn those Witches!” was our battle cry. Sensitive, huh? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/28 "2002-07-22T02:06:09Z")
In high school I cheered on the **Kenwood Bluebirds** - very intimidating, I tell ya. Now, it’s even worse: the **UMBC Retrievers**. Yeah, puppies are right up there with panthers and lions when it comes to intimidation. My favorite cheer involved the girls (and two guys) shaking their butts are the crowd and saying, “OOOOHHH! I shake my feathers at you. I said, OOOOHHH! I shake my feathers at you.” It had a hop-hop beat and started a riot at nearly every game. > [@](#): > > Parkville High School Knights That wouldn’t happen to be Parkville High Knights in Baltimore County, would it? If so, you went to high school ten minutes away from my current home. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/29 "2002-07-22T02:08:15Z")
Uh, the feather cheer goes with the **Bluebirds**. And they shook their butts at the crowd, in case you were looking for a preposition. Rah. Rah. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/30 "2002-07-22T02:22:20Z")
Topeka West High School Chargers And I never miss a chance to tell the name of our college team. The Ichabods(Washburn University of Topeka) ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/31 "2002-07-22T02:38:55Z")
Alexander Galt Pipers (our mascot was a bagpipe player). My CEGEP had the Champlain Cougars, and we shared a campus/facilities with Bishops University and the Gaiters. Now its the Guelph G-R-Y-P-H-O-N-and-then-an-S, oh yes, cuz we are the best. (gotta get into it - I’m a Frosh leader this year 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/32 "2002-07-22T02:45:02Z")
We had TWO rivals… Pasadena high eagles and the South Houston TROJANS…You can imagine all the condom jokes at the pep rallies?? ---
**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/33 "2002-07-22T02:57:26Z")
Robert E. Lee _Generals_ (c/o 1970) and, altho’ its not PC now, we (the band) had a killer arrangement of “Dixie”. Ironically, due to demographic changes, the students at the school are now almost all African-Americans. But no moves, that I’ve heard of, to change the name. Unlike at Nathan B. Forrest _Rebels_, also mostly Black. Mebbe its cause NBF was a founder of the Klan. School was built in the 1920’s, but the trend to naming after Confederate military types continued into the 1960’s, Forrest HS, for example. Since then, most of the new HS (except Ed White, for the Apollo I astronaut, opened in late 60’s) have names matching the part of town. ---
**Author:** ![Phouchg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@Phouchg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phouchg)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/34 "2002-07-22T03:11:47Z")
I am a graduate of Haverhill (Mass.) High School - the logo and symbol of the school is the famous statue of the Thinker (a replica of it stands in the front courtyard). For some inexplicable reason, the nickname of the athletic teams is [the Hillies](http://www.haverhill-ma.com/hhs/finn/) as far as I can tell, that nicknames is not in use _anywhere else on earth._ I traveled to Yuma, Arizona recently on business. How would you like your high school teams to be known as [the Criminals](http://www.yumahigh.com/)? Apparently has something to do with the former site of the Yuma territorial prison located there… Phouchg Lovable Rogue ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/35 "2002-07-22T03:32:39Z")
Once upon a time, long long ago, my high school football team was called the Riders. However, somebody died, and they stopped having a football team altogether, and so by the time I came around nobody could even remember which part of the huge soccer/baseball/hockey field had once held the goal posts for the football field. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/36 "2002-07-22T03:43:15Z")
The Falcons. I assume they have a football team. (Yeah, I’m sure they do.) Crescenta Valley High School (“C.V.”) in the LaCrescenta part of Glendale, Calif. (Yes, La Crescenta is really part of Glendale.) ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/37 "2002-07-22T04:21:39Z")
I was an **Owl** for the 9th and 10th grade, then we moved and I became a **Yellowjacket**. I always prefered “being” a Garland Owl–It was a fun place to be a band geek. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/38 "2002-07-22T04:24:55Z")
Here in lovely New Middletown, Ohio, we have the **Springfield Tigers**. ---
**Author:** ![ApeHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@ApeHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ApeHead)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/39 "2002-07-22T04:26:42Z")
My wife and I both graduated from Booker T. Washington HS, home of the “high-steppin” Hornets. I had the privilige of graduating with the “Live Hive of 85.” 😃 My college mascot was kind of funny though-- the Lords. No biggie except the womens’ team name was the “Lady Lords.” 😕 Hoom hom! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/40 "2002-07-22T04:29:41Z")
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