The Konkrete Kids varsity football team will take the field on a new field this fall: the Lou Wolf Field.

The Northampton Area School District Board of Education voted 8-0, with one school director absent at the July 25 meeting, to approve a proclamation and name the Al Erdosy Stadium field in recognition of Lou Wolf, an Army veteran of the Korean War and NASD athletic director, coach and teacher.

“It’s an all-purpose field,” NASD Superintendent of Schools Joseph S. Kovalchik said of the refurbished field. “[Wolf] is all-purpose. He represents what the field is all about, many sports, not just football. More importantly, he put academics first.”

A seven-member Lou Wolf Field committee raised “thousands of dollars” not only for placement of Lou Wolf Field lettering on each 20-yard line facing home and away seats, a plaque to honor Wolf and Erdosy, but for academic scholarships for NASD students. The amount raised and scholarship details are to be announced.

The tentative date for the Lou Wolf Field dedication is Sept. 23 at the stadium, which reopened in fall 2015 after two years of major upgrading as part of the $80.6 million Northampton Area Middle School and Secondary Campus Renovation Project.

The Lou Wolf Field committee raised funds for about three months from NASD businessmen, administrators, teachers, family and friends. And even though most of the committee members meet for breakfast and lunch weekly, they only informed Wolf about the project July 21.

“To this day, I’m proud to be a Konkrete Kid,” said Wolf, who will be 85 on Sept. 27, in accepting the proclamation.

Wolf, a Northampton High School, Class of 1949, and East Stroudsburg University, Class of 1958, graduate, was a Northampton High School social studies teacher. He was assistant football coach 1958-61 to head coach Erdosy.

Wolf was NASD assistant athletic director and head football coach 1967-74, winning two league championships, and NASD athletic director 1974 until retiring in 1992.

Wolf is a member of the NAHS Athletic Hall of Fame, McDonald’s Football Hall of Fame and the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.

NASD school Director Robert Mentzell said to Wolf, “I was a rookie teacher. You took me aside and helped me get oriented.”

When Wolf made the rounds of handshakes at the school board directors’ table, he signed an autograph for Mentzell.

“It wasn’t just about football,” Lou Wolf Field committee member Robert L. Gilly said of Wolf, the coach and teacher. “The students had to learn what the priorities were. You had to do well in the classroom and you had to represent the Black and Orange. It was about Northampton.”

In answer to a question after the meeting from a reporter for Northampton Press, Wolf said the most memorable moment of his career was “the day I was called to take Al Erdosy’s place.”

On having the football field named after him, Wolf said, “I was shocked, but knowing my friends, I wasn’t surprised.”

Wolf’s wife, Elsie, who died six years ago, was an NHS, Class of 1949, graduate.

“I was president of the class. She was vice president,” said Wolf.

They have two children, Kathy, of Plano, Texas, and Jane, of Perkasie, Bucks County.