Discussing high school memories with our favorite server at Village Inn this morning and my husband asked her about Beetdiggers. We have driven by Jordan High School several times since we moved to Utah. Every time we passed, one of us would always remind the other that we needed to find out "what is a beetdigger?". As it so happens, our favorite server says she and many of her family members attended Jordan High School and she gave us the scoop on beetdiggers.
The school was founded in 1907. At that time, there was a large sugar beet industry in Utah and the district for Jordan High School was largely rural. Therefore, when it was sugar beet harvesting time, the kids were out of school for two weeks in the fall to dig up beets. Thus, the Beetdiggers became the mascot for the school. Mystery solved.
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