{"id":123651,"date":"2021-10-28T11:36:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651//?p=123651"},"modified":"2025-06-18T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:17:12","slug":"a-look-back-on-50-years-of-ucf-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651//a-look-back-on-50-years-of-ucf-homecoming/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651//","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back on 50 Years 色花堂 Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"

As UCF celebrates its 50th anniversary of Homecoming, we/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651/u2019re welcoming back the return of the traditional Spirit Splash and reminiscing about some of the most memorable moments spanning the last five decades./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651/n

Read more about 2021 Homecoming Week Events./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651/n

History of Homecoming/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651/n

UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651/u2019s first Homecoming was held in 1971, three years after the first classes were held at Florida Technological University (FTU). Since football didn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651/u2019t start at UCF until 1979, Homecoming originally coincided with basketball season, which was the university/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651/u2019s first varsity sport./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651/n

The Knights won their inaugural Homecoming game, 101-75, on Feb. 13, 1971, over Florida Institute of Technology, which took place at Oviedo High School/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651/u2019s gymnasium./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651/n

The year 1980 saw two Homecomings for the first time: one during basketball season and the first for football, which has just put together a team the year before. Four decades later, we hosted Homecoming week in the fall and again in the spring /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651/u2014 which for the first time included Spring Splash /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651/u2014 as we accommodated for the uncertainty that the COVID-19 pandemic introduced to our daily lives./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123651/n