Saturday August 19, 2023 Hall of Fame Banquet @ FDL Knights of Columbus (Avenue 795)
2023 FDL HS Athletic Hall of Fame weekend details below
2023 Class
Mark Mellenthin ’74
John Rashid ’81
Katie (Wimberger) Meyer ’93
Trish (Paulsen) Fortune ’92
Kayla (Pickart) Blaguski 2011
Shavana Talbert 2012
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(Postumas) Frederick Dana (Class of 1905) 1887-1934
1904 WIAA State Champion 880 Yd Run & 1 Mile
1905 WIAA State Champion 880 Yd Run & 1 Mile
Player on the 1904-05 WIAA State Champion Basketball Team
#OnThisDay in 1905, the Fond du Lac High School boys basketball team won the first high school basketball tournament ever held in the United States. Ten Wisconsin teams played in the Lawrence University Invitational in Appleton, and Fond du Lac defeated Sheboygan to become the first state champions in U.S. basketball history. Fond du Lac later went on to become the first WIAA state champions when the first WIAA tournament was held in 1916.
Leo Fitzgerald – Captain – Dud Clark – Dan Daugherty – Harry Doty
Fred Dana (Also 1904 & 1905 State Champion in the Mile & 880 yd Run)
Frank Shepherd – Frank Mahoney
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Team Induction
1914-15 Boys Basketball State Champions
Paul Monroe – Harry Rice – Fred Ellison – Edward Karst – William Fitzgerald – Emmert Manion – Francis Foren – Leonard Baker
Head Coach : J.E. Roberts
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