How the Fordyce Redbugs got their name

I have heard that the Fordyce school system in Fordyce, Arkansas, claimed this mascot "The Redbugs" in the 1920s, when the football team played a game on a field that had not been mowed during the previous week. When the teams played on the unmowed redbug-infested football field, the players were covered with bug bites, and the school decided on a new mascot.

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Sheila Witherington