Wilton Miners Football mascot
You will never see this again. It does not exist.
There is no more Wilton Miners Football team. This night was their last home game as the Wilton Miners. From now on, the Miners’ identity is merged with that of the Washburn Cardinals to become come the Southern Mclean Roughriders.
A new identity
The students of both schools (Washburn and Wilton) voted to form the new co-op for 9-man football.
On the last night of home turf play, the Miners lined up against whom else but The Cardinals. Here their opponent. Next season, their teammate.
The Miners got spanked pretty hard in this game, so it appears it will be to their advantage to merge with the stronger Cardinals. But I don’t think that will make it any easier. School pride will be eroded a bit. Personal and school identity will be a bit more vaporized.
Both Washburn and Wilton are losing something. Like many small North Dakota towns that lose their railroad, their businesses, their schools, this is progress of a deteriorating sort, a kind of devolution.
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