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The second story for why they are the "Greenwave" is because supposedly the Tulane Green Wave (New Orleans) stopped in Mattoon at the train station on their way to play a football game in Chicago back in the mid 1930s. As the story goes, the MHS football team met them and in honor of that event, the school named the local team after them.
The Big Twelve Conference is a high school athletic conference in the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), based in Central Illinois.While the name implies that the conference has twelve schools, there are actually only eleven schools currently active, due to other schools either closing, ending offering varsity athletics, or changing conferences.
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Mattoon (/ ˈ m æ t. t u n / MAT-toon) [3] is a city in Coles County, Illinois, United States. The population was 16,870 as of the 2020 census. The population was 16,870 as of the 2020 census. The city is home to Lake Land College and has close ties with its neighbor, Charleston .
By the end of the 1920 season, the Green Wave nickname was used across athletics as the name for the Tulane used by the Hullabaloo. Newspapers followed suit, though a few still referred to Tulane ...
MATTOON, Ill. (WCIA) — Coles County Coroner Ed Schniers confirmed the two people shot on Sunday died in a murder-suicide. Now, family members and neighbors of the victim say this could have been ...
Consolidated Communications was founded as the Mattoon Telephone Company in 1894 by Dr. Iverson A. Lumpkin in Mattoon, Illinois. In 1924, the company became the Illinois Consolidated Telephone Company (ICTC) and began acquiring telephone companies in the region over the next several decades, including telephone companies in Christian County, Montgomery County, the Illinois Southeastern ...
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