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Re: What is Homecoming? (Re: Somebody help.)
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lugnet.people
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Wed, 6 Oct 1999 01:41:25 GMT
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Homecoming is, I think, supposedly for the Alumni!
It's supposedly the alumni who come back (come home) to their alma mater
and
watch the team trounce some hapless opponent and reminisce about good
times.
At Da Tech homecoming was a Big Deal. It was hobo week, everyone dressed
up in their ratty clothes, put burned cork on their faces, chewed cigars
and generally got obnoxiously drunk... starting monday and lasting all
week.
The highlight was the Hobo Parade. A lot of the fraternities and other
groups would dredge up derelict cars, smash the windows and bodywork
with sledge hammers and generally make them look like also rans in the
demolition derby, then drive them in the Hobo Parade. The Theta Taus
went one better, they had an old Mack they dredged up somewhere that
they used every year. It was a flatbed and all of them would fit on it.
I was a Delta Sig and we ruled campus while I was there... so natch we
tried to win all the stuff just like we did at Carnival. I donated my 69
Catalina one year, and we torched the top off to make it into a
windowless convertible.
Another year we used a car that had been abandoned in our parking lot. I
had no idea that a sledgehammer, properly applied, can make the cylinder
lock on the steering column just drop away. We wired a 110 V wall switch
to the starter wires (it was a 3 way switch)
But I digress.
David Eaton wrote:
>
> In lugnet.people, Jeremy Sproat writes:
> > Okay, this is going to sound dumb, so I'll let you reply after you've picked
> > youself up from the ground, still convulsing from crippling bouts of
> > laughter...
> >
> > So Homecoming, then, is also a college thing?
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> Yep. The odd thing I think is that my high school didn't do anything for
> homecoming, other than the homecoming game. There was a game every year, and we
> actually had a pep rally 1 year... but the profound lack of school spirit made
> it virtually useless. Homecoming in college was a much bigger deal! There
> wasn't a dance or anything, but there were lots of events going on the whole
> of homecoming weekend, like the giant freshman vs. sophomore rope pull, the
> pep rallies, bar-b-q, etc.
>
> As for why it's called 'Homecoming' I have no idea. Seems it's always in the
> start of the year, though... so maybe it has to do with teams coming back to
> school?
>
> DaveE
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| (...) Did Tech ever win a homecoming game? Note to onlookers: Michigan Technological University is (well, was) not well-endowed when it came to football. At the time I was there (mid-80's) we didn't have a football stadium, just a gridiron with a (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) Yep. The odd thing I think is that my high school didn't do anything for homecoming, other than the homecoming game. There was a game every year, and we actually had a pep rally 1 year... but the profound lack of school spirit made it (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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