Quirky HS Nicknames

[gbasalmon]

Representing the AVON LAKE SHOREMEN. Are there any other Shoremen out there? I guarantee there are other Moose out there.

Hmm, I had a good friend from college who went to Avon Lake. Small world. Around WNY, we have the Wilson Lakemen (Wilson is on the shore of Lake Ontario).

[doafhat]

Redundant or quirky names in Oklahoma:

Sand Springs Sandites

U.S. Grant Generals

Chickasha Fightin' Chicks

Clinton Red Tornadoes

Sallisaw Black Diamonds

Deer Creek Antlers

Dewey Bulldoggers

Elk City Elks

Alva Goldbugs

Atoka Wampus Cats

Eufaula Ironheads

Haskell Haymakers

Wilburton Diggers

Crooked Oak Ruf Nex

Beaver Dusters

Bray-Doyle Donkeys

Cherokee Chiefs

Fox Foxes

Navajo Indians

Okeene Whippets

Thomas Terriers

Watts Engineers

Buffalo Bison

Buffalo Valley Buffaloes

Davidson Sandies

Paoli Pugs

Waynoka Railroaders

[winghaz]

There are also the Moorhead High School Spuds in Minnesota, right across the river from Fargo.

Also in North Dakota, I've always liked the Kenmare Honkers. Hettinger, now called the Black Devils, was once called the Gold Bugs. Marion-Montpelier was, for a little while, called the M&Ms. The Munich Magicians and Starkweather Stormkings formed a co-op and became the Magic Storm. New Salem is the Holsteins (there is even a giant holstein cow outside the town on a hill overlooking Interstate 94). There was also the Wahpeton Wops (which was changed to Huskies because of the derogatory term Wops is, plus it's a dumb nickname).

And, as mentioned before somewhere here, there was my home school, the Wing Royals, which began a co-op with our arch-rivals, the Tuttle Trojans, and for a while became ... gulp ... the Royal Trojans.

[Discrim]

Redundant or quirky names in Oklahoma:

Eufaula Ironheads

I'm about to say they named themselves after that Craig Heyward fella

yeah, they should tell people that

[VitaminD]

Actually, it's Grimsley High that goes by the Whirlies. And their logo is a tornado with Grimsley written at the top.

1000% correct. My bad, and I knew better - my ex-girlfriend's entire family went to Grimsley. I was reading something about Dudley earlier, and it was on the brain. Thanks for spotting that.

One more from Jersey I forgot: Woodstown Woodies. They never got too much flack, because they were the juvenile high school (and may still be). It was the one game I wouldn't throw inside very often (I was also a foot shorter and 40 pounds smaller then)...

[KCScout76]

Amarillo Golden Sandies (Whirlwind)

Here's a pix of the Columbia Hickman Kewpies (mentioned earlier)

Lathrop Mules Lathrop, Missouri

Lone Jack Mules Lone Jack, Missouri

Melbourne Central Catholic HS "Hustlers" Melbourne, FL

Lakeland HS "Dreadnaughts" Lakeland, FL

Collinsville HS "Kahoks" Collinsville, IL

Atlanta HS "Rabbits" Atlanta, TX

Parkersburg HS "Big Reds" Parkersburg, WV

Live Oak HS "Acorns" Morgan Hill, CA

North Monterey County HS "Condors Castroville, CA

Pacific Grove HS "Breakers" Pacific Grove, CA

Venice Beach HS "Gondoliers" Venice Beach, CA

[BigEd76]

Boiling Springs (PA) Bubblers

Easton (PA) Red Rovers

William Allen (PA) Canaries

Bangor (PA) Slaters

Northampton (PA) Konkrete Kids

Jim Thorpe (PA) Olympians

I'm doing most of the Pennsylvania ones from distant memory, so please feel free to correct me (particularly on Northampton -- it might be a different school that uses that nickname).

Northampton is correct.

Some more from PA:

Benjamin Franklin Electrons

Biglerville Canners

Bishop Hoban Argents

Conestoga Valley Buckskins

Danville Ironmen

Haverford Fords

Muhlenberg Muhls

Northern York Polar Bears

Roman Catholic Cahillites

Trinity Shamrocks

Wallenpaupack Buckhorns

(Philadelphia) West Speedboys

Wilkes-Barre GAR Grenadiers

[Youppi!]

fairfield(il) mules

grayville(il) bisons

centralia(il) orphan annies(women)

[winters in buffalo]

Hoopeston Cornjerkers

I had to look that one up, purely out of morbid curiosity....

Mascot's name is Jerky. Go figure.

[Conns09]

medicene lake honkers

antelope pronghorns

(game over)

Reppin the MT

[Jimmy!]

Arlington Honkers (OR)

Tillamook Cheesemakers (OR)

When I was in junior high, our mascot was the Ponies. We played a school whose nickname was the Kittens (yes, the Kittens). I can still hear the laughter I received when I told my parents that the Ponies were playing the Kittens in basketball.

[pcgd]

Wow, those Illinois ones first mentioned...I played against the CornJerkers, the Bunnies and the Pretzels in my HS football career.

The Fisher Junior High was known as the Scotties, you know, the little dog. So once you got through being a Scottie in Junior High, you got to become a Bunny.

The CornJerkers if I remember right had a HA (Hoopston-Area) with "Jerkers" written across it.

As far as the Collinsville Kahoks, they are a ficticous native american tribe. The area has ancient burial mounds all over the place. My mom went there.

[Yac12]

My middle school's teams were called the Red Devils; which is a little redundant, since the Great Satan hisself is red and scaly, with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hayfork.

The school I coach/teach at is the Kenosha Bradford Red Devils (WI)

[winghaz]

One more from North Dakota: The Wildrose Roses.

Now, some from Minnesota:

The Grand Meadow Superlarks

The Blooming Prairie Awesome Blossoms

And some clever ones from Minnesota:

The Minneapolis Edison Tommies

The Minneapolis Roosevelt Teddies

The Little Falls Flyers (Little Falls is the hometown of Charles Lindbergh)

The LeSueur-Henderson Giants (LeSueur is the home of the Green Giant Co.)

The Sauk Centre Mainstreeters (Sinclair Lewis, author of "Main Street," was from Sauk Centre)

[Klschmann]

The high school I went to was the Annandale (VA) Atoms, which I'm pretty sure is the only Atoms in the country.

Even weirder was that the last name of our football coach was Adams.

[Bleujayone]

I found this listing on another board

Angry Antelopes --- Whiteface High School; Texas

Atom Smashers --- Savannah Johnson High School; Georgia

Auctioneers --- Mullins High School; South Carolina

Awesome Blossoms --- Blooming Prairie High School; Minn.

Chinks --- Pekin High School; Illinois

Cornjerkers --- Hoopeston High School; Illinois

Criminals --- Yuma, Arizona High School

Deaf Hoosiers --- Indiana School for the Deaf

Fighting Cockes --- Cocke County High School; Tennessee

Fighting Farmers --- Lewisville, Texas High School

Flaming Hearts --- Effingham High School; Illinois

Giant-Killers --- Vulcan High School; Michigan

Golden Beavers ---Western Beaver High School; PA and Beaver Dam School; WI

Gremlins --- Wichita Plainview High School; Kansas & Houghton High School; Michigan

Immigrants --- New York Lower East Side Prep

Ironheads --- Eufaula High School; Oklahoma

Mad Frogs --- Menno, South Dakota

Maniacs --- Orofino High School; Idaho

Martians --- Goodrich High School; Michigan

Mighty Honkers --- Yuba City High School; California

Nimrods --- Watersmeet Township, Michigan School

Pretzels --- Freeport High School; Illinois

Satans --- Devils Lake High School; North Dakota

Screaming Penguins --- Bellingham Explorations School; WA

Strutting Jaguars --- Athens Drive High School; N. Carolina

Swedes --- Gothenburg High School; Nebraska

[leopard88]

Rochester Benjamin Franklin High QUAKERS (now Q-DOGS)

Dear God.

[leopard88]

Representing the AVON LAKE SHOREMEN. Are there any other Shoremen out there? I guarantee there are other Moose out there.

Can't say for HS, but Washington College in Chestertown, MD (wife's alma mater) calls it men's teams the Shoremen (I think the women's teams are the Shorewomen, to be PC/gender accurate).

[leopard88]

Hoopeston Cornjerkers

I had to look that one up, purely out of morbid curiosity....

Mascot's name is Jerky. Go figure.

"I don't need to talk to you, jerky."

OK. Last reply, I promise.

[Tom Reing]

Sparrows Point (MD) Pointers

Boiling Springs (PA) Bubblers

Easton (PA) Red Rovers

William Allen (PA) Canaries

Bangor (PA) Slaters

Northampton (PA) Konkrete Kids

Dunbar (MD) Poets

Philipsburg (NJ) Stateliners

Jim Thorpe (PA) Olympians

I'm doing most of the Pennsylvania ones from distant memory, so please feel free to correct me (particularly on Northampton -- it might be a different school that uses that nickname).

Boiling Springs was the only team Lebanon Catholic beat when I played football there. Sadly, Lebanon Catholic's mascot was the Beavers so we didn't have that much ferocity or anything to boast about.

Would love pics of some of these schools.