HOMECOMING: Through the decades

By Abbey Fisk,
Bluedevilhub.com Staff–

Homecoming has a history of excitement, but the specific activities have changed over the years.

Some of the traditions that changed the most are coordinated by the cheerleaders. In 1989, they decorated the house of every JV and varsity football player, and leave bags of treats on their doorsteps.

“We would be out until like three in the morning,” former cheerleader and Davis High alumna Miriam Fisk remembered.

The cheerleaders today do something similar but not quite the same.

“We typically make them lots of cookies,” sophomore cheerleader Elaina Hupe said.

Cheerleaders today have football buddies, so they only have one person to be responsible for.

Fisk recalled another difference. “The Powderpuff football games used to be during homecoming week,” she said. Now the Powderpuff game is in May.

With the exception of having a kazoo band play at homecoming back in 1989, most of the other traditions have remained the same.

“We still have the rally, spirit week, parade, homecoming game and the halftime show,” senior Claire Dicker said.