we are wake forest

here you will find an incredible amount of reasons why we love wake forest, spanning from the town of winston-salem to the deepest inner workings of campus itself.

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001. Our mascot.

"In the following issue of the school newspaper, the editor of the paper, Mayon Parker (1924 Wake Forest graduate), first referred to the team as "Demon Deacons," in recognition of what he called their "devilish" play and fighting spirit. Henry Belk, Wake Forest's news director, and Garrity liked the title and used it often, so the popularity of the term grew."