WILD 🪜 CAT
September 9th 2026
By Sandy Weisz in Raddle Signal
· 1 min read
Northwestern's owes its team name to a 1924 Chicago Tribune article detailing a recent football game where despite the university’s loss to the UChicago Maroons, the team looked like “wildcats [that] had come down from Evanston.”

Theme: Northwestern University
I graduated from Northwestern University in 1998, with a degree in Computer Science, though I spent most of my time there designing for the newspaper, The Daily Northwestern. Every few months since graduating, I open up the latest NU alumni magazine with an eye out for the names of folks I once knew. I'm thrilled to say that now I'm one of those names, thanks to this profile of me by Diana Babineau.
Mystery #11 …
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