[EricH]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

From the looks of the old pictures there were no team numbers in 1992.
And in the years following that teams were assigned numbers every year by alphabetical order (I think it was by sponsor name. That's why while while we may be an original FIRST team we have a rather large number because Xerox starts with an X).

I saw a list once and it was by sponsor name, alphabetically, with 3M being the first sponsor--for the current team #1, Juggernaut.

330 was originally 82, but a sponsor switched names or something like that and they got a new number. I like 330 better.