Sunday, March 4, 2018

The Presidents Become the Bulldogs - September 9th, 1961

For the first 16 season of Wilson Football, the team was known as the Presidents (or "Prexies"). That all changed for the 1961 season, when Wilson marched onto the West Lawn sod as the "Bulldogs" for the first time on Saturday, September 9th, 1961. Wilson athletes compete as "the Bulldogs" to this day. [Source: Reading Eagle vis Google Newspaper Archive]