Name-a-Day Calendar, March 26: Liberty Flames

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Chosen in: 1974

Chosen by: Student body vote

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What is now Liberty University was founded in 1971 as Lynchburg Baptist College with the motto “Knowledge Aflame”. In 1974, the school held a student body vote to determine an athletics nickname and the winner was “Flames”, submitted as a play on the motto.

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