Vince Hohmann, '52 - Hohmann lettered for the Cougar basketball and football teams. He was a member of both teams for their initial seasons in the Badger-Illini Conference.
In basketball, Hohmann was a four-year letterman and three-year starter at center. During his four years, the Cougars went a combined 62-23 including a 15-game winning streak during his junior year and an 11-game streak his senior year. He earned second-team all-conference honors his sophomore and junior years and first-team honors his senior year.
Hohmann scored a team-leading 22 points in Concordia's first-ever CIT game in March of 1951 versus Concordia Springfield. On January 19, 1952, he scored a school-record 31 points in a game against Northwestern of Wisconsin, only to eclipse his own record 28 days later with 33 points against Illinois Tech, a game in which he shot a school-record 82 percent from the field. He concluded his collegiate playing career by being named to the CIT All-Tournament team.
In football, Hohmann played four seasons at left tackle, three of them as a starter. He was a member of Concordia's 6-1 team in 1949 and earned first-team Badger-Illini all-conference honors in 1951.
Hohmann earned his B.A. in education. Following graduation, he taught and coached girls' basketball at St. John Lutheran School in Hamlin, New York for four years. Hohmann chaired the Lutheran Education Conference of the greater western New York and Pennsylvania region for two years. He later served as principal and seventh/eighth grade teacher at St. Matthew's Lutheran Day School in North Tonawanda, New York from 1957 until his death in 1968.
