St. John's, citing "sensitivities to Native American communities," will no longer call its sports teams the Redmen, a nickname it has used since 1922.

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The name Redmen came about when the school's football team arrived for a game in 1922 dressed in red from head to toe. Local sportswriters started calling the team "the men of red," and "Redmen" then came into use.

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