Featured Athletes /// Linn Varsity Football


Linn football ready for inaugural varsity season Story By: Tom Loeffler Photography By: Christina Laughlin


It’s Friday, Aug. 30, at the football home of the Linn Wildcats. It’s  arrived. The long wait is over. It’s about time. 


  start of this year.


Really, those aren’t long waits at all.  by the Linn School Board in early 2021 to start a football program, or  


46 /// August 2024 “It goes back to the mid-1970’s when Linn started a football pro-


 then, when they were about to start varsity, they almost unexplain- ably dropped football.”


Hard to explain, yes. But actually, it becomes easier when you dig a bit deeper.


“The Wildcats had a very strong basketball program back in those days,” said Klebba, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Legends Bank. “Basketball was King. Well, it was the last junior varsity football game of the year. One of the best athletes to ever go to Linn High School was  “At that point, some of the people in the school decided no more of this. They weren’t going to jeopardize basketball for football.”


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