Montana State University Billings - Rimrock Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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the football team downed hebmeti • • • A strange mixture of blaring festival, slightly-bclow- average game results, the usual hero-worship of the participants and unexpected tragedy is the way we summed up Eastern’s silver- I anniversary football season. ] The colorful ceremony consisted mainly of adjunct activities such as the pep band, the baton- and flag-twirlers and the cheerleaders which, although they did not detract from the center ring, added considerably to the inducement's for which spectators look. The use of the new intramural athletic field on the north hill of the campus helped demonstrate the school's growth to the rest of the world. The scores unfavorable to Eastern's best morale need not be ■ stressed; faith in football as a legitimate activity in the best interests of the student body as a whole, was still predominant. With the athletic committee’s promise to stimulate the student body in ensuing years to greater school spirit, the 26th year of Eastern should see it retain its financial popularity. And with popular Oscar again leading the pack, hard work and long practice hours should produce another popular season. t. Tfl

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ovrwL the. ahm ni Mtu med fin ct wtiwi Wcmjecfymmcj Rosemary Hampton. Boh Sheppard. Pat Germeraad. Jerry Supola, Bud Rist. Rita Christensen, Jim Nicholson. Donna Drew, Tim Mullowney. JoAnn Johnson. Blackie Yonce. We saw that Homecoming, 1952. was the most successful of any Eastern activity to date. There was more per-capita participation, shown by the fervent campaigns for Queen and by the increased attendance at the rally, the game, the parade and at the memorial service for Wes Salonen. The good will picked up for the school downtown was evident When some of the dorm girls got together and agreed to put up posters for the Queen nominees, and when others caught the spark of school interest, it looked as though Dr. Peterson's statement about the phenomenal conduct of the students would be justified. So all that week we saw them work on parade floats and otherwise prepare for the big weekend, the climax of which was to be the game with Mines.” The Flaming E rally on Friday night was effective, and the announcement of Rita's election was a fitting prelude to the next day About 11:00 a m . Eastern's homocoming parade began to wind noisily down 27th. Later on. with the cross-country race won by Sam and with his kiss from Rita pleasantly out of the way. we settled down to an enjoyable afternoon of football, so we thought. That such an exceptional start to an exceptional success ended as it did. is indeed tragic. Perhaps a tradition of general apathy in school affairs would have died a violent death, even a gradual one.