 The first graduating class was the Class of 1976.Legend has it that this first cohort wished for the school teams to be named the Seventy-Sixers, to both honor the nation's bicentennial and the first NFHS graduates.However, the more universal "Rebels" was chosen, the first depiction of which was General David Wooster, a Revolutionary War hero who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Ridgefield after the British raid on Danbury in 1777.