Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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The Beta ' s prize winning Moat The ADPi ' s prizewinner Homecoming, 1951: Parades and house decorations...

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It all started five years ago when the Pi Phi ' s challenged the Alpha Xi ' s to a game of touch football, and that was the beginning of the Powder Bowl. The first three games were ties: 0-0 twice, and 6-6 once. Then last year the Pi Phi roared to a 31-0 victory. All proceeds from the game go to the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, $700 from this year ' s game. And, naturally, the girls had to have a King, Chuck Stack of the Phi Tau ' s. His Court con- sisted of Al Lehnerd, Theta Chi, and Gil Muntz, Sigma Chi. After the game the two teams adjourned to the Theta Chi house for a Tea in their honor, and the presentation of a trophy to Ann Hammerle, captain of the Pi Phi ' s. meet the Alpha Xi ' s in the annual Powder Bowl Twcnt I

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At a college a snake dance is a long line of college students, usually ending somewhere about a leap- ing pyre of everything burnable. Ohio University ' s snake dance was no exception, with the O.U. Marching band leading the way to the field. The Friday night before Homecoming is a tradition in almost every college in the country, and it ' s usually one of the most long-lived memories in any graduate ' s mind. There ' s excitement in the air, and everyone is carefree; no Saturday classes: and tests and extra-work and everything academic is forgotten — temporarily, at least. And at night, when most people are getting ready for that short nap before the next day ' s parade, you can still hear the faint cries of some late celebrators, walking the streets . . . then the OU-Kent game. A dramatic moment in the Homecoming game. Dick FleiU is cutting toward pay-dtrt, thanks to nice blocking by Bob Haug and Frank Underwood. Far left: the second place Thet.i Chi house Near left: first place Delta Tau Delta decorated house Twenty-Seven