The day after Muhammad Ali unanimously won a 15-round championship fight against Jimmy Young at the Capital Centre in Landover, Md., he stunned hundreds of Prince George’s County teens when he walked into their high school prom.
It was May 1, 1976, long before such a celebrity appearance might make the rounds on social media. Few people took pictures of Ali, and no newspapers documented the visit at the time. But earlier this year, a spokesperson for the Prince George’s police department happened to see photos from the prom in the house of a former Parkdale High School teacher and began sharing the tale.season gets underway at high schools around the D.C.
“At that point, I had to figure out what was going on,” Vondas said Thursday. He asked the front desk and found out Ali’s room number. When Vondas made the pitch to Ali, he only asked for him to pass through and shake some hands. He explained that the surprise appearance “would make some wonderful kids very happy.”“He thought I wanted him to get dressed up and wear his tux and all that,” Vondas, 76, explained. “I said, ‘No, no, you come any way you desire. I’ll come get you at 8:30, we’ll go down and you’re going to blow this place out of here.’”s administrators.
“His hands were so big that when he shook my hand, my hand was, like, gone,” Yohe said. “It was unbelievable.”When Ali walked into the ballroom, the whole crowd stood up, Vondas said. Students rushed toward the center of the stage, mesmerized.Yohe remembered looking over at his prom date to see the surprised look on her face. Several students looked shocked that Ali walked through the door. “One of my friends gave me a bunch of crap because I didn’t tell him,” Yohe said.
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