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The earliest teams to adopt the skull and crossbones were rugby union teams of the time. It was popular across many football sports in Great Britain and is still widely used by modern sports teams. In sports, the symbol was first adopted in the 1870s. Another common fraternal use is one of warning wherein the skull and crossbones symbolize a dire warning against betraying the group's secrets and/or failing to keep one's oath.Īdoption by sporting teams Barbarians team that faced Exeter, April 1891 For others, the symbol has a religious reference (as with the Masonic Knights Templar, for which the skull and bones symbolize Golgotha, the place of Jesus' crucifixion).

For some, they are a symbolic reminder of mortality. The significance of these symbols varies from group to group.

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In fraternal usage, the skull and crossbones – along with full skeletons and the skull alone – are a very common motif due to their common association with death. These groups include the Knights of Columbus, the Royal Black Institution, Apprentice Boys of Derry as well as the Knights Templar degree of Freemasonry. Other fraternal groups also use the skull and crossbones in their symbolism or their secret fraternal rituals. Other well-known college fraternal organizations which use the skull and bones in some capacity in their public symbols include but are not limited to Delta Sigma Pi, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Kappa Sigma, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Chi Psi and Zeta Beta Tau Fraternities and Sigma Sigma Sigma, Chi Omega, and Kappa Delta Sororities. The most well-known example of this usage is Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale University which derives its very name from the symbol. The skull and crossbones motif was used by many American college fraternities, sororities, and secret societies founded in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The symbol was adopted, for various reasons, by many sporting teams, clubs, and societies in both America and Europe. The skull and crossbones was a common fraternal motif as a symbol of mortality and warning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

For other uses, see Skull and crossbones.

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