Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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super Spraying his hair purple, Zech Yardley, junior in finance, gears up for the K. State vs. Oklahoma game Oct. 14 at 51.1 Staduim. (Photo by Reed Dunn) conned from page 8 An ESPN College Camoday broadcast live from KSU Stadium was reason enough for 15,587 football fans to fill the east side of the complex Oct. 14. The chance to be seen on national television was an incentive for at least one group of about eight K-State students to wake up b y 8 a.m. in order to arrive at the stadium early with posters and face paint in hand. It was rough getting up, Zach Yardley, junior in finance, said. With all of this going on, you have to get up this early, though: Roommates Ashley Riedel and Suzanne Zayner, both juniors in food science, attended a number of games as part of the group. Ewing paints his face purple in a bathroom at KSU Stadium prior to the start of the Oct. 14 football game against the University of Oklahoma. Ewing opted not to go to the broadcast of ESPN College Gameday, in order to wait in line with Mends to get front- row seats. (Photo by Michael Young) Zayncr put the usual powercat tatoo on her cheek. and tied her hair with purple ribbons. While one group could not forego the opportunity to be on another group passed up the chance in order to get their usual front row seats. We were right there, Jason Baldridge, junior in mass communications, said. This year it (the tradition of dressing up) has really taken off. Last year there were a few of us, but this year we ' ve made all the games. Oct. 14 was not the first time Yardley had gotten up early to support the team. When the Wildcats were announced as competitors in the 1998 Big 12 Championship, he and some of the same friends woke up at 4 a.m. to go to Bramlage Coliseum and get tickets for the game against Texas A M. We had been waiting at the front of the line, and a lady came and told us we couldn ' t get tickets that day, Yardley said. She said they hadn ' t come in rt. Ryan junior in management information systems, had been going to K-State football games with Yardley since they met during their freshman year in the residence halls. Before that. Teply attended games with his family. He said attending the games as a K-State student made the experience more enjoyable. 1 think being a student elevates the adrenaline rush, Teply said. These are our classmates on the field. As freshmen, Yardley and ' reply sometimes tried to convince others of their connection to team members. We used to sit around and make up stories about how we knew the players: Yardley said. We ' d tell people at the games we hung out with them the night before. One tradition Lyner said she would never forget was the time she was lifted off her feet and passed to the top of the student section. I thought people were going to drop me, but it was a lot of fun. Zayner said. I ' d seen people crowd surf before, but when you do it yourself, it ' s a lot different. While the Cats lost their first home game in three years, it did not have any long- term effects on the true fans. Baldridge said. It sucks and it pretty much ruined the rest of my day but they ' re our team. They ' re our guys; Baldridge said. Were going to go support them regardless. STUDENT LIFE

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Showing K-State ' s No. 1, Nick Ewing, sophomore in interior architecture, waves his finger in the air. (Photo by Michael Young) Ashley Riedel, junior in food science, and Zech Yardley, junior in finance, show purple pride for ESPN cameras on College Gameday at ICSU Stadium Oct. 14. (Photo by Reed Dunn) Screaming a cheer, Melanie Tracicwell, senior in biology, encourages the Wildcats Oct. 14. (Photo by Michael Young) UNSEEN

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In his 1984 Scrambler, Garrett Fowler traverses the difficult terrain. An Alaskan postal Jeep, Fowlers rig is one of only seven like it in the continental U.S. (Photo by Kelly Glasscock) UNSEEN