Louisiana State University - Gumbo Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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Festivities Highlight Homecoming Week Homecoming 1977 was a success eveiywhere but on the football field this past October. Homecoming week. October 9- 1 5. began Monday with a rah. rah. sis boom bah as 29 groups partici- pated in the Tiger Tantrums chant competition. The Tiger Roar pep rally held that Thursday was the highlight of the pre-game activities. It featured an appearance by Bill Conti. com- poser of the musical score for Rocky and an LSU graduate, and the music of Dejeans Olympia Brass Band and Blackie Forrester and the Cajun Aces. The winning chant from Tiger Tantrums. as well as a fireworks display, were also presented at the pep rally. An Almost Anything Goes games competition was held with over 30 teams competing. Acacia Fraternity combined a first in this competition with a first in the fra- ternity decorations division to win the sweepstakes title for the third year in a row. Kappa Kappa Gamma won the chant competition, with Chi Omega winning the sorority decorations division, Acadian Dorm, the inde- pendent singles division, and Home Economics and Industrial Technol- ogy departments, the doubles divi- sion. The Homecoming Committee, chaired by Larry Hoskins, crowned Judy Fousch Homecoming queen during the halftime festivities. Missy Crews. Lynn Herring. Jenni- fer Jarrell. and Cindy Whitten were named to the court. 1. Junior Judy Fousch was crowned queen of the 1977 Homecoming extravaganza in October. 2. Onlookers admired Chi Omega ' s sorority -winning Homecoming decoration entry. (Photos by Dan- id) TXOER GUMBO f n 1 1 LJ I (J 1 IPLjckUuck 22E Shred BuLLpup iTor L.gs Gr ; d I P ON 32., Tide T n 7 (| p orpLe GoLd.) 7 BuLLpup, I e. R i e e lean Green v a v e -BLend With And itasRed ou-r Tide AddS RebeL YeLL. -LRGNIrPPC-

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Football . . . continued Had LSU defeated Kentucky in 1977 ' s version of the LSU Home- coming, the Tigers would have probably finished the year with a great record. But this is not what happened. A parade of glaring, gigantic errors turned a 13-7 Kentucky lead into a 33-7 Kentucky runaway. The game produced more if ' s than the record crowd of 71,495, and LSU saw its 2-0 SEC record suffer a 33- 13 tarnishing. Sugar Bowl hopes also vanished, along with the num- ber eleven national ranking the Tigers had built in the UPI poll. 1. Mike the Tiger showed Bill Conti, the composer of the musical score for the film Rocky, around at the Homecoming game. (Zietz) 2. The lingering remains from the Homecoming Decorations con- test waited for the trash collectors. (Daniel) 174 Main Ingredients

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Traveling Tigers Continue a Tradition The Tiger fan, like many other genera, comes in a variety of spec- ies. There are die-hard Tiger fans and Tiger fans through heredity. And there are alumni Tiger fans who begin arriving as much as a day in advance of home football games the Traveling Tigers. Not only do the Traveling Tigers arrive early for home games, they also establish temporary residence in their specially designated area behind Alex Box Stadium, making a weekend of LSU ' s Saturday night special. The Traveling Tiger tradition began in the early 1960 ' s when one family arrived in a mobile home and parked by the stadium for the weekend. The idea caught on and soon the stadium lot began to look a little like an overnight trailer park. The open field behind Alex Box Stadium was shelled and designated for this fast-growing species of Tiger fan. On any weekend of a home game, the Traveling Tigers begin arriving on Friday. This informal organization includes former LSU athletes, parents of athletes, and LSU alumni. Fans of opposing teams are welcomed to the Travel- ing Tigers ' plot. Saturday s take on a picnic atmosphere - - barbecues, picnics, shooting the breeze, horseshoes, and, of course, football. After the game, some of the cam- pers pack up and disappear down I- 10 while others spend another night at their weekend retreat and leave on Sunday. But they ' ll all be back for the next Saturday night kick-off. Lin l IS Jp b f fcitl h! v f OkM 176 Main Ingredients