Lincoln High School is welcoming all alumni students and retired staff, as far as the greater Manitowoc community, to attend the 100-year anniversary Homecoming events this weekend.
Manitowoc Public Schools Activities and Athletic Director Stan Diedrich said that based on a suggestion from Biff Hansen, players, coaches and members of Lincoln’s 1983-to-’87 football teams including the 48-game winning streak will be honored at halftime of the homecoming game with Green Bay East tomorrow (October 7th).
“Biff and I were talking and he’s like ‘It’s 100 years of Lincoln High School where it is, and the streak was a big part of that’,” Diedrich explained. “We want anyone that was involved, at half time, they are going to come out. We are going to honor them. Something pretty simple but also very significant.”
Diedrich says the homecoming parade is tonight at 6:00 o’clock departing from Rubick Field.
“It’s going to end up down just south of the JFK at Lincoln and they are going to have the games and fireworks after, food tucks a bonfire and things like that,” he noted. “The next morning, they are going to be having tours open to the public. They are running them every half hour starting at 9:00.”
Lincoln High School was built in 1923 with classes beginning in January, 1924 as students moved from then-Washington High School to the new school with its legendary tower.
In 2017, Architectural Digest named Lincoln as the most beautiful public high school in Wisconsin.
