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<\/p>\nI read recently that the Butler University use of the Bulldogs\u00a0for\u00a0the university\u00a0team name and mascot began when the Butler team \u2013 known as the \u201cChristians\u201d (since the school was then still affiliated with the Christian Churches Disciples of Christ) or sometimes the \u201cBlue and White\u201d \u2013\u00a0played a team from Franklin, the \u201cBaptists.\u201d\u00a0The heated rivalry\u00a0led to the creation of a cartoon for the student newspaper on\u00a0November 21st, 1919, in which a bulldog attacks John the Baptist. Our archive librarian Sally Helton-Childs was able to get me a copy of the cartoon, and so I am sharing it here. I don\u2019t think it has been seen\u00a0my many people\u00a0in the years since then, and so I consider it a privilege to be able to share it here today.<\/p>\n
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As a religion professor at Butler with a focus on Biblical studies, I was interested in the use of Biblical imagery, with the title suggesting that the Butler team was going to hand the \u201cBaptists\u201d their head on a platter.\u00a0\u201cBrother John,\u201d however, looks more like a Baptist in the sense of the modern denomination, than\u00a0the<\/em> Baptist (who ought to have been wearing camel hair).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I read recently that the Butler University use of the Bulldogs\u00a0for\u00a0the university\u00a0team name and mascot began when the Butler team \u2013 known as the \u201cChristians\u201d (since the school was then still affiliated with the Christian Churches Disciples of Christ) or sometimes the \u201cBlue and White\u201d \u2013\u00a0played a team from Franklin, the \u201cBaptists.\u201d\u00a0The heated rivalry\u00a0led to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":28715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[1004,1449,1450,1476,1625,1848,2016,5875,10704],"class_list":["post-28714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baptists","tag-baptists","tag-bulldog","tag-bulldogs","tag-butler-university","tag-cartoon","tag-christians","tag-collegian","tag-john-the-baptist","tag-salome"],"yoast_head":"\n