2 Butternut Midgets
This mascot has come under some fire but the Midget is actually referring to Charlie Fischer who is a legend in Butternut who was a multiple time world champion wrestler. He was given the nickname Midget because of his small stature.
7 Clintonville Truckers
Clintonville is home to the US Seagrave Fire Apparatus Plant which makes fire trucks, so obviously the mascot for Clintonville High School would be a fire truck, and the players Truckers.
2 Waukesha South Blackshirts
The team was once known as the Cardinals. During the Great Depression, the school needed to purchase new football uniforms. Unfortunately, the cost of jerseys made with red dye was too expensive for the school’s budget. Therefore, they decided to go with less expensive black jerseys. At the time black was apparently a rare color for football uniforms, so the opposing teams and their fans made fun of the Waukesha athletes and called them the “Black Shirts.” Rather than be embarrassed, the school decided to show pride in the name, and therefore re-named themselves the Blackshirts. They also decided to keep the cardinal as their mascot, renaming him “Blackie Blackshirt.”
7 Watertown Goslings
Watertown had a thriving business raising geese for and the Watertown Stuffed Goose was a delicacy on gourmet restaurant menus across the east coast. The high school wanted to preserve the legacy of this industry and took the Gosling mascot. The earliest reference to students from Watertown being known as Goslings is believed to dates back to 1885.
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