When the varsity, junior varsity and freshman Oxford Wildcat football players take the field this season, they will be wearing something special to honor the memories of Helen Smith and Andy Vascassenno.
There will be two stickers on the back of each helmet that read ‘HS? and ‘Andy.?
Smith was a charter member of the original Oxford Wildcat Booster Club and worked her fingers to the bone for the group from 1968 until its dissolution in 2005. She was an avid Oxford football fan who never missed a game if she could help it. She passed away on July 13 at the age of 81.
Vascassenno was a trusted, devoted and kindly fixture in Wildcat athletics from 1966 until 2009. He did anything and everything he could for every sport and loved being around the kids. He died in December 2014, just two days shy of his 93rd birthday.