Homecoming week is a time for students to come together, show their class spirit, and bond as a school. Homecoming week continues a more than one-hundred-year tradition at EHS of celebrating the community and its long-standing place in it. The theme this year is Enchanted Forest.
Senior Hunter Johnson is excited that he will have a homecoming week his senior year, ¨I think it's gonna be a good environment for everybody to be there together in the school for homecoming. Since it has been so long.”
Johnson will take part in the activities all week but is really excited about the football game, “Most excited for the homecoming game because, me personally, I haven't played in one. That’s my first time playing since I was ineligible to transfer last year.”
The 1911 Kansas vs. Missouri football game is one of several claimed to be the first college football homecoming game.
The tradition of Homecoming can be traced back to alumni football games at colleges and universities since the 19th century. According to the websites for several schools, many including Baylor, Southwestern, Illinois, and Missouri claim to have held the first modern homecoming.
Englewood High School Traditions
In the 1928 yearbook, there is a reference to an event called the EHS Orpheum. The term, Orpheum is derived from Orpheus, a great Greek mythological poet, and musician whose skills could charm animals, plants, and even rocks. According to legend, when Orpheus's wife died, his song was enough to charm Hades into giving her back from the underworld
At Englewood, it was a series of celebrations, performances, and a fair-type activity that took place in September. By 1939, the yearbook showed a parade-type event at around the same time of year.
Aiden Mader is a junior and is looking forward to Homecoming royalty, “Because I just get to see the social standing of my peers.”
¨I'm excited because as a freshman, we didn't get any of that and it was supposed to be like our first year getting to do stuff like that,¨ said Julia Moore. She likes it because students get to do a lot of fun activities together, “I think just being able to like be all together again.”
Senior Molly Tucker can’t wait, “I am excited to attend all of the games and events this year because we weren’t able to do any of it last year. I’m excited about the homecoming dance. I am excited to see my friends, get dressed up, and have the time of my life.”