University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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rlnking is permitted outside the range Bowl for ttiose of age, al- ough police officers patrol the Is to keep order. One eager Mi- ni fan displays the order of im- ortance of FSU in comparison to e Canes and the Florida Lottery. Traditions are hard to break. Those that in- volved parties, were much harder. Through the years, football games and pre- game tail-gate parties have been enjoyed together regularly by students. These parties were pre-cele- brations for what students hoped to be another Hurricane victory. Each of these parties featured several common de- nominators; beer, loud yelling and screaming, hot dogs or hamburgers on portable grills, and more beer. Tail-gate parties, however, were not limited to home games. Those more advantageous, or perhaps more fortunate to ob- tain tickets, drove hundreds of miles to attend Miami road games. Twelve Lambda Chi Al- pha fraternity members endured a 22 hour drive to Ann Arbor, Michigan to see the Hurricanes defeat the Wolverines, 31-30. Since we had Michigan stu- dent tickets, we were right in the middle of about 20,000 blue and gold shirts. We didn ' t care though. We had our faces paint- ed orange and green and were yelling for the Canes, said Steve Harper, a sophomore fra- ternity brother. People were yelling at us and throwing bot- One more — EXCUSE TO PARTY ties, but the game was so excit- ing we didn ' t pay much atten- tion to them. Luckily there were no fights, but there were a cou- ple close calls. The lure of a top twenty con- test and Bourbon Street in near- by New Orleans drew more fans to the Louisiana State game in Baton Rouge. Those Miami supporters that trekked across the deep south, sat through a November monsoon as rain fell the entire game. We just load- ed up a couple cars and took off again, said Harper. The more people that can go to yell for Miami, the better. Everybody has a great time. Darren Dupriest From the park- ing lots of the Orange Bowl, to Ann Arbor, Michigan, tail- gaters find an- other reason to celebrate Tail-gate Parties 19

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photos by Mike Roy Before the first home game of the jd season at the Orange Bowl, three p»tj Sigma Phi Epsilon members cele- tiif brate what they hope is the start n of a second consecutive national Uk championship. lii 18 Tail-gate Parties

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