Can you believe 11 colleges are named after Blue Devils? Mascots started to appear in the early 1900s. The Blue Devils name originated from World War I when the “French “les Diables Bleus” or “the Blue Devils,” the nickname given to the French Alpine light infantry battalion. Technically, there are really only 10.5 colleges today as the Kaskaskia Blue Devils are just for the men’s teams. The women’s teams are called the Blue Angels.
1. Central Connecticut State University Blue Devils, New Britain, CT
2. Dillard University Blue Devils, New Orleans, LA
3. Duke University Blue Devils, Durham, NC
4. Kansas City University Blue Devils, Kansas City, KS
5. Kaskaskia College Community College Blue Devils, Centralia, IL
6. Lawrence Technological University Blue Devils, Southfield, MI
7. Merced Community College District Blue Devils, Merced, CA
8. State University of New York at Fredonia Blue Devils, Fredonia, NY
9. Riverland Community College Blue Devils, Austin, MN
10. University of King’s College’s Blue Devils, Halifax, Nova Scotia
11. University of Wisconsin-Stout Blue Devils, Stout, WI
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