This Friday, Rochester faces Freeburg in the first round of the 4A football playoffs. Freeburg’s sports teams are nicknamed “THE MIDGETS”. I know!
This will surely come up in a trivia night category someday, so here are a few more ‘interesting’ mascots from around the state of Illinois. Can you think of any more? And yes, everybody knows what the Pekin teams were called until 1980.
Centralia Orphans – the girls are the Orphan Annies
Cobden Appleknockers
Fisher Bunnies
Freeport Pretzels
New Berlin Pretzels
Hampshire Whip-purs
Hoopeston Cornjerkers
Kewanee Flying Geese
Teutopolis Wooden Shoes
Zion-Benton Fighting Zee-Bees
Polo Marcos
