Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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. . . all for the Bulldogs, Stand up and holler! Fran Laws and her partner Jim Lofton raise the spirit of the fans and players. Hamlin Hall residents let the University of Georgia know exactly how they feel about the upcoming game. tiHIlMlRB The college fan supports his Universi- ty with fanatic loyalty that may die, momentarily, only to be revived twofold. A University that held its meager beginnings as an agricultural training school only to evolve into the state ' s largest institution of higher learning could only demand of its supporters a diehard loyalty unfathomed by whim- sical tendencies. State fans are a dedicated lot — they ' ve ridden the high roads of suc- cess and travelled the lowly paths of defeat. But through it all, they had spirit. Mississippi State spirit. . . . The kind of spirit that gives a logical, thinking individual permission to thrust a rusty cowbell skyward and say Ding-Dong, Dammit! . . . The kind of spirit that lets a man dress like a baggy-cheeked Bulldog and lead a crowd of Maroon-clad fans in group cheers. . . . The kind of spirit that prevails from year to year and generation to generation of Mississippi State supporters. Mississippi State spirit is what brought us to this University. And the same spirit will bring us all back. Again and again. H. Johnson Even little Bulldog fans go all out to show their spirit. zy-

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