THE IVCC SPARTANS? Team name picked, never used
In 1942, Spartan was selected as the name for teams at LaSalle-Peru-Oglesby Junior College, but the name was never used.
A contest to select an athletic mascot for L-P-O, IVCCs predecessor, was announced in the Hi-Co Courier student newspaper in January 1942.
Spartans was declared the winner in a March 1942 issue of the paper. Robert Beaumont, an L-P-O sophomore, submitted the winning name. The selection was made by Dean Harry Wilmot, football coach Merlyn Burris and coach Leslie Hoenscheid.
The Spartan mascot name is never mentioned again.