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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 14:37:11 GMT
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 01:41:25 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:
> Homecoming is, I think, supposedly for the Alumni!
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> It's supposedly the alumni who come back (come home) to their alma mater
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> watch the team trounce some hapless opponent and reminisce about good
> times.
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 slight grassy
knoll to sit on.
> 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.
So, other than the burnt cork, it was pretty much like every other week in
Houghton.
Steve
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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