Creighton Bluejays football
The first year of Creighton Bluejays football was in 1900. They fielded a football team every year from 1900 to 1942. The first team photo is from 1893, but first played in 1900. Nickname. Creighton adopted a Bluejay as its mascot in 1924, when the University's athletic board selected the name from submissions for a contest run by the Omaha Bee newspaper. Conference championships. Creighton won three conference titles. The Bluejays won two North Central Conference championships and one Missouri Valley Conference championship.