Photo collage of Wisconsin Badger director Mike Leckrone with the Camp Randall 100 logo

Andy Baggot

Camp Randall 100: Mike Leckrone

Win or lose, fans came to count on Leckrone’s band to put on a show

Andy Baggot

Camp Randall 100: Mike Leckrone

Win or lose, fans came to count on Leckrone’s band to put on a show

Camp Randall 100 logo
The Camp Randall 100 is an exclusive list celebrating 100 people who have shaped Camp Randall Stadium's history across the realms of sports, music, culture and beyond. A new honoree will be revealed each day over the final 100 days leading up to kickoff of the Wisconsin football team's season opener with Utah State on Friday, Sept. 1. The Camp Randall 100 reveal is part of a year-long celebration of the history of the iconic stadium, which opened in 1917.
 

MADISON, Wis. — Coaches have come and gone, the surface of the field has changed and the success of the team has surged, but for parts of six decades Mike Leckrone and the Badger Band have been a constant for Wisconsin football fans coming to Camp Randall Stadium.

Along the way, Leckrone has seen the lows and the highs – many more of the latter over the past 25 years – since taking his perch in front of the UW Marching Band in 1969.

His contributions fill chapters of the Badgers' book of traditions – he helped teach us that "when you say Wisconsin, you've said it all" – and made the famed "Fifth Quarter" a game-day staple that Wisconsin fans have come to know and love.

Read more about the birth of the Fifth Quarter – and his view of the rise of Wisconsin football – in Leckrone's Camp Randall 100 profile.


Camp Randall 100 profiles through July 30, 2017:
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